Registry Handbook - Common Names

The Registry Handbook - Common Names consists of two parts  

The Name Section contains about 1.1 million substance names listed alphabetically. Each name is succeeded by the CAS Registry Number (in square brackets) and the molecular formula. The CA Index Name can be found in the Num ber Section using the CAS Registry Number. 

About 720,000 CAS Registry Numbers referring to the 1.1 million names in Name Section are listed in this section. Each CAS Registry Number is followed by the molecular formula, the systematic Index Names from the different collective periods and the various trivial names which are also included in the Name Section (Fig. 67). Therefore this part contains more names than the Name Section i.e. about 1.6 million. 

Not all the substances listed in the Registry Handbook - Common Names have been mentioned in Chemical Abstracts, as the Chemical Abstracts Service also awards CAS Registry Numbers to substances which have been included in other publications, e.g. Colour Index, Merck Index or from other organizations such as the BioSiences Information Service, but which have not been described in the primary literature. Or these substances were mentioned in the literature before the computer supported publication of Chemical Abstracts started, i.e. before 1967. 

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The Registry Handbook - Number Section, also available in microform, lists CA index names and molecular formulas of all the chemical substances recorded in the CAS Registry. The Registry Handbook - Common Names, in microform, links common names with CA index names for some selected 1.5 million substances. 

The Registry Handbook - Common Names provides a simple method of determining, which chemical substance is meant by a trade or trivial name or vice versa and which other names are known for a certain substance. This is especially important for literature searches in which no CAS Registry Numbers can be used, only substance names. In many cases it can save an expensive online search in the Registry File. 

C. Tomlin, ed.. The Pesticides Manual A World Compendium, Incorporating the Agrochemicals Handbook, 10th ed.. The British Crop Protection Council and The Royal Society of Chemistry, Crop Protection PubHcations, Cambridge, U.K., 1994. Includes 725 entries by common name in alphabetic order, with chemical stmcture, chemical name(s), molecular formula, CAS Registry Number, physicochemical properties, commercialisation, mode of action, uses, trade names, analytical methods, mammalian toxicology, ecotoxicology, and environmental fate. 

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