IUPAC and nomenclature: brief guides and 2D (QR) InChl barcodes

摘要

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC, http://iupac.org/) is the organisation, worldwide, that is most closely identified with nomenclature, and I have been working on nomenclature projects with IUPAC for some 15 years now. The key publications that pull together the IUPAC nomenclature recommendations are the "colour" books. The "Blue Book" (Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry - IUPAC Recommendations and Preferred Names 2013, H. A. Favre, W. H. Powell (Eds.), Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, U.K., ISBN 978-0-85404-182-4) covers the nomenclature of organic chemistry, while the "Red Book" (Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry - IUPAC Recommendations 2005, N. G. Connelly, T. Damhus, R. M. Hartshorn, A. T. Hutton (Eds.), Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, U.K., ISBN 0-85404-438-8) deals with inorganic nomenclature, and the "Purple Book" (Compendium of Polymer Terminology and Nomenclature - IUPAC Recommendations 2008, R. G. Jones, J. Kahovec, R. Stepto, E. S. Wilks, M. Hess, T. Kitayama, W. V. Metanomski (Eds.), Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, U.K., ISBN 978-0-85404-491-7) with polymer nomenclature.