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14. Nomenclature of prostaglandins and thromboxanes, in preparation by JCBN.
15. Revision of section F, in preparation by CNOC.
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19. IUPAC, Nomenclature for cyclic systems with contiguous formal double bonds (the delta convention), Pure Appl. Chem. 60, 1395-1401 (1988).
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