Nomenclature stereochemical notation

Sloan, T. E., Stereochemical Nomenclature and Notation in Inorganic Chemistry, 12, 1. 

Throughout the history of study on these compounds, there have been many errors in nomenclature (particularly as it relates to their stereochemical notation). If a more serious consideration of this topic is desired, then one is referred to the very lucid, well-presented review of the subject by Parthasara-thy and Eisenberg (1986). 

A. Structure, Bonding, and Nomenclature — Lewis structures, orbital hybridization, configuration and stereochemical notation, conformational analysis, systematic IUPAC nomenclature, spectroscopy (IR and 3H and 13 C NMR)... 

A Macromolecular Division of lUPAC was created in 1967, and it created a permanent Commission on Macromolecular Nomenclature, parallel to the other nomenclature commissions. The Commission over the years has issued recommendations on basic definitions, stereochemical definitions and notations, stmcture-based nomenclature for regular single-strand organic polymers and regular single-strand and quasisingle-strand inorganic and coordination polymers, source-based nomenclature for copolymers, and abbreviations for polymers. AH of these are coUected in a compendium referred to as the lUPAC Purple Book (99). 

Stereochemical Definitions and Notations. Structure-based nomenclature of regular pol5mers (10) can denote stereochemical featiu-es if the repeating unit used is the configurational base unit, ie, a constitutional repeating unit having one or more sites of defined stereoisomerism in the main chain of a polymer molecule (22). Structure-based names are then derived in the usual fashion. The various stereochemical features that are possible in a polsmer must be defined. 

International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (1981) Stereochemical definitions and notations relating to polymers (Recommendations 1980). Pure Appl Chem 53 733-752 International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (1985a) Source-based nomenclature for copolymers (Recommendations 1985). Pure Appl Chem 57 1427-1440... 

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