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Full text of IUPAC Recommendations
Glossary of Organic Class Names Glossary of Terms in Physical Organic Chemistry Basic Terminology of Stereochemistry
Hantzsch-Widman Nomenclature for Heteromonocyclic Rings Non-standard Valence States (Lambda Convention) Cyclic compounds with contiguous formal double bonds (delta Convention)
Fused Ring Nomenclature Phane Nomenclature Phane Nomenclature Part II
Glossary of Terms in Bioinorganic Chemistry Glossary of Medicinal Chemistry Terms Nomenclature of Isotopically Modified Compounds (Section H)
IUPAC Atomic Weights
and Periodic Table
(2009 values) New element names December 2011		 Von Baeyer nomenclature
 Spiro nomenclature
Natural product nomenclature (Section F) Radicals, Ions & Radical Ion Nomenclature Gold Book
IUPAC definitions of terms.
Fullerene nomenclature Numbering of Fullerenes Numerical Terms to 9999
Regular single-strand organic polymers nomenclature Watch this space.
Recommendations by IUPAC and IUBMB
(International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
from the Joint Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature
Nomenclature of Amino Acids and Peptides Nucleic Acid & Constituents Abbreviations and Symbols Carbohydrate Nomenclature
Conformation of Polypeptide Chains Conformations of Polynucleotide Chains Conformation of Polysaccharide Chains
Glycopeptide, Glycoprotein & Peptidoglycan Nomenclature Glycolipid Nomenclature Cyclitol Nomenclature
Polymerised Amino Acids Nomenclature Lipid Nomenclature Newsletter (1996, 1999, 2004 & 2009)
Prenol Nomenclature
Terpenoid precursors 		Steroid Nomenclature Vitamin D Nomenclature
Folic Acid Nomenclature Carotenoid Nomenclature Retinoid Nomenclature (Vitamin A)
Tocopherol Nomenclature
(Vitamin E)		 Vitamin B-6 Nomenclature
(Pyridoxal) 		Corrinoid Nomenclature
(Vitamin B-12)
Biochemical Thermodynamics Biochemical Thermodynamics
Draft revised version		 Lignan Nomenclature
Nomenclature of Quinones with Isoprenoid Chains Tetrapyrrole Nomenclature Biochemical Phosphorus Compounds
Other recommendations, bibliographic data etc.
IUBMB recommendations Nomenclature Nucleic Acid Sequences
(incompletely specified bases)		 Enzyme Nomenclature
(EC 1 oxidoreductases, EC 2 transferases, EC 3 hydrolases,
EC 4 lyases, EC 5 isomerases and EC 6 ligases)
Electron Transport Proteins Nomenclature Peptide Hormone Nomenclature Enzyme kinetics
Bibliography of IUPAC nomenclature recommendations
 Bibliography of IUPAC Organic Chemical Nomenclature Bibliography of IUPAC-IUBMB Biochemical Nomenclature
Bibliography of IUPAC Nomenclature Books Bibliography of IUPAC Macromolecular Chemical Nomenclature Bibliography of IUPAC Inorganic Chemical Nomenclature
IUPAC Publications Pure and Applied Chemistry
with PDF files for all volumes from volume 1 (1960)		 Chemistry International also PDF file of text
Provisional IUPAC nomenclature recommendations IUPAC Organisation and people Map of Usage Statistics
(to January 2013)
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Last update 22 May 2013.

Change to IUBMB Nomenclature Home Page for biochemical nomenclature.