Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry

This article is about the book. For the rules and recommendations contained in the book, see IUPAC nomenclature of organic chemistry.
Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry
Hardcover 2013 edition
AuthorInternational Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
LanguageEnglish
SubjectChemistry
GenreNon-fiction
PublisherRoyal Society of Chemistry
Publication date
1979 (1st edition)
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint
Pages1612 pages
ISBN978-0854041824

Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry, commonly referred to by chemists as the Blue Book, is a collection of recommendations on organic chemical nomenclature published at irregular intervals by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). A full edition was published in 1979,[1] an abridged and updated version of which was published in 1993 as A Guide to IUPAC Nomenclature of Organic Compounds.[2] Both of these are now out-of-print in their paper versions, but are available free of charge in electronic versions. After the release of a draft version for public comment in 2004[3] and the publication of several revised sections in the journal Pure and Applied Chemistry, a fully revised edition was published in print in 2013[4] and its online version is also available.[5]

  1. ^ International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. Commission on the Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry (1979). Nomenclature of organic chemistry. J. Rigaudy, S. P. Klesney, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (4th ed.). Oxford: Pergamon Press. ISBN 0-08-022369-9. OCLC 5008199.
  2. ^ International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. Commission on the Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry (1993). A guide to IUPAC nomenclature of organic compounds : recommendations 1993. Robert Panico, Warren H. Powell, Jean-Claude Richer. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications. ISBN 0-632-03702-4. OCLC 27431284.
  3. ^ Preferred names in the nomenclature of organic compounds, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, archived from the original on 2009-12-19, retrieved 2009-11-22.
  4. ^ Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry : IUPAC Recommendations and Preferred Names 2013. Henri A. Favre, Warren H. Powell, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. Cambridge, England: Royal Society of Chemistry. 2014. ISBN 978-1-84973-306-9. OCLC 865143943.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  5. ^ "Blue Book". iupac.qmul.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-03-22.