Like many chemists finishing their chemistry degrees or PhD theses, I thought that my nomenclature days were over the second I left academia for a position in industry. Nomenclature was not what ...

Organic chemistry is a difficult subject to master for many reasons, one of which is the sometimes-confusing nomenclature of organic compounds. The Learn Organic Chemistry Nomenclature app walks ...

Naming Organic Compounds As most of you already know, organic compounds are special. Not surprisingly, they have their own special nomenclature, which we shall cover briefly.

Making chemical nomenclature software available to all chemists enables greater efficiency and boosts the overall quality of naming in the corporate and public domain.

After five years of labor, the International Union of Pure & Applied Chemistry has unveiled a method to create unique, computer-readable identifiers for chemical compounds. The source code and ...

Nomenclature – the "art" of naming organic chemicals – is crazy making. That's because multiple systems of nomenclature are used to describe chemical compounds.

Why do we have such a predilection for naming names rather than attaching adjectives? In doing so, we certainly obscure much about the fundamental chemistry we are referencing.

The heaviest recognized chemical element with the atomic number 112 was discovered at the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung and -- since February 19, 2010, -- officially carries the ...