What is Nomenclature of Organic Compounds?
The procedure of naming both living and non-living things is known as nomenclature. The word is derived from the Latin words “nomen” (name) and “calare” meaning “call.” Different compounds are named according to standards that have been agreed upon globally. But it might range from following severe regulations to adopting the everyday language. When dealing with the process of nomenclature for organic compounds, then this process of nomenclature is referred to as ” Nomenclature of Organic Compounds” which we will discuss in this article in detail.
Need of Nomenclature for Organic Compounds
In the early days, when there is no guidelines for naming conventions of organic compounds, there was a lot of confusion among chemistry scholars as they can’t communicate with the names of organic compounds. Thus, in 1919 IUPAC was founded to standardize various things such as atomic weight, melting point, boiling point, and various other properties of elements. Other than this they were also tasked to create the guideline for the naming convention scheme which now is known as IUPAC Nomenclature.
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.