[IUPAC recommendations] [Tutorials/reviews] [Acronyms and Abbreviations]
[Databases] [Software] [Organizations]

IUPAC recommendations

• IUPAC Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry [Search]
• Glossary of class names of organic compounds and reactive intermediates based on structure.
• Revision of the extended hantzch-widman system of nomenclature for heteromonocycles
• Cyclic compounds with contiguous formal double bonds (delta Convention)
• Treatment of variable valence in organic nomenclature (lambda convention).
• Nomenclature of Carbohydrates
• Nomenclature of Steroids
• Glossery of terms used in physical organic chemistry
• Basic terminology of stereochemistry
• IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology

Searchable and browsable collection of nearly 7000 terms, with authoritative definitions, spanning the whole range of chemistry.

Tutorials/reviews

• Industry Insight - The Need for Systematic Naming

  An overview of both the need for systematic naming as well as available software modules to perform naming.

• An introduction to basic organic nomenclature

Acronyms and Abbreviations

• Acronyms and abbreviations

  Database that gives the full name when given the acronym ( > 12,000 entries, includes the Abbreviations of Chemical Compounds database)

• Acronym Serverdatabase

  Search the full name for an acronym (Automatic left and right truncation)

• CAS Standard Abbreviations and Acronyms

  Overview of standard abbreviations and acronyms used by CAS in order to be able to use them in search profiles and identify them in text. Listing A is arranged in the alphabetical order of the full terms which are abbreviated, Listing B is arranged in the alphabetical order of abbreviations and acronyms.

• Scientific and Technical Acronyms, Symbols and Abbreviations

  Database contains over 180,000 entries.

Databases

Free

• Chemindex

  Chemindex is a searchable database guiding to information resources on over 200,000 chemicals. Each Chemindex record contains e.g. chemical names and synonyms, the CAS registry number, and a list of the CCINFO databases containing information on that substance.

Commercial

• ACD/Dictionary

  Contains over 140,000 systematic and non-systematic names along with the corresponding molecular structures of the most frequently used chemicals and biologicals classified by more than 200 therapeutic categories.

Software

Structure to name conversion

• ACD/Name

  Generates systematic names according to IUPAC and IUMBM recommendations on Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry for almost any organic structure and selected classes of natural products, biochemical, organometallic and inorganic structures.

• Nomenclator

  Assigns systematic names to organic structures according to IUPAC nomenclature rules (1993 blue book).

Name to structure conversion

• NamExpert

  From a chemical name (IUPAC or trivial), it creates the corresponding structure in one of the three styles: shorthand, Kekule, or semistructural formula.

• Chemdraw module: Struct <=> Name Pro 12.0

  Generates a ChemDraw structure by typing in systematic chemical names for most substances.

• ACD/Name to Structure

  Generates structures from systematic and trivial chemical names, designates stereo configuration of chiral centers and double bonds, assigns numbers to atoms in the structure and reports warnings about ambiguity of chemical name.

Organizations

• IUPAC Homepage

  The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry is a voluntary non-governmental, non-profit organization that unites chemists from all over the world.