Semisystematic name
In chemistry, a semisystematic name is a name for a chemical compound that contains some elements of systematic chemical nomenclature but is not completely systematic.[1] Examples include methane, propanol, benzoic acid, glycerol, acetone, styrene. Many semisystematic names are retained names in IUPAC nomenclature,[2] and may also be preferred IUPAC names.[3]
The history of semisystematic names can be traced to the Geneva Congress of 1892, which produced the first formal system of organic nomenclature.[4] The Geneva nomenclature formalised many of the suffixes that are still in use today, such as –ol to denote an alcohol, but there were already a wide variety of names in use. Some of these already had the correct suffixes, such as acetone, and other names were modified without making them fully systematic; for example, glycerine became glycerol in normal chemical usage to reflect the fact that it is an alcohol, although its full systematic name is propane-1,2,3-triol.
References
- ↑ Rule R-0.2.3. In A Guide to IUPAC Nomenclature of Organic Compounds; IUPAC Recommendations 1993; Blackwell Science: Oxford, 1993; p 14. ISBN 0-632-03488-2, <http://www.acdlabs.com/iupac/nomenclature/93/r93_108.htm>.
- ↑ Rule R-9. In A Guide to IUPAC Nomenclature of Organic Compounds; IUPAC Recommendations 1993; Blackwell Science: Oxford, 1993; pp 162–82. ISBN 0-632-03488-2, <http://www.acdlabs.com/iupac/nomenclature/93/r93_33.htm>.
- ↑ Draft Rule P-12.1. In Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry; IUPAC Provisional Recommendations 2004; IUPAC, 2004; pp 3–7, <http://old.iupac.org/reports/provisional/abstract04/favre_310305.html>.
- ↑ Congrès de nomenclature chimique, Genève 1892. Bull. Soc. Chim. Paris, Ser. 3 1892, 7, xiii–xxiv, <http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k2820064.image>.
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