IUPAC System of Nomenclature
Guideline for the systematic nomenclature of organic compounds given by the organisation “International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry”(often abbreviated to IUPAC) is known as “IUPAC nomenclature of organic compounds”.
The international organization in charge of standardizing the atomic weights, symbols, nomenclature, etc. of different substances is known as IUPAC. It creates and updates this data to support scientists and researchers around the world. The IUPAC nomenclature for inorganic and organic chemicals was developed by this organization.
IUPAC Nomenclature of Organic Compounds
Organic Compounds are those which have Carbon-Hydrogen or Carbon-Carbon bonds. Chemistry is studied under three branches Organic, Inorganic, and Physical Chemistry with each dealing with different types of topics. For this article, we will focus on Organic Chemistry which is the study of carbon and its various compounds. Carbon compounds have a special catenation property that helps them to make long-chain organic compounds. Thus, there are millions of organic compounds, and naming all of them is tough so we came up with a method of naming these organic compounds which are called as Nomenclature of Organic Compound. Nomenclature of Organic Compound is the common set of rules which helps us name all the organic compounds without remembering the name for any of them, we just have to remember the rules. Let’s learn about these rules for naming organic compounds i.e., nomenclature, in detail.