On the New Proposals of Modification of the Nomenclature of Chemical Compounds

摘要

The University of Kragujevac (Serbia Republic) publishes a series of monographs (the series editor, Professor Ivan Gutman), joined under the theme of Mathematical Chemistry Monographs (MCM). The eleventh edition of this series consists of the monograph by Professor Seymour B. Elk (Elk Technical Associates, New Milford, New Jersey, USA) entitled "The Structure-Nomenclature Cycle of Chemistry" [1]. The author of the monograph is a renowned expert in matters of molecular topology, geometry, and the grounds of graph theory in chemistry, chemometrics, and orismology (the science of defining the technical and scientific terms). Key papers of the author of the monograph (over 50 publications) correspond to the period of 1990-2000. The publication [1] is hardly accessible to specialists because of the limited edition (100 copies). It is expedient to review the monograph [1] from the standpoint of analysis of current trends in the fields of chemistry like mathematical chemistry and chemometrics.