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	INTERNATIONAL UNION OF PURE AND APPLIED CHEMISTRY Recommendations on Organic & Biochemical Nomenclature, Symbols & Terminology etc.
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Full text of IUPAC Recommendations
Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry, Blue Book New	Brief Guides to Chemical Nomenclature New	Basic Terminology of Stereochemistry
Glossary of Organic Class Names	Glossary of Terms in Physical Organic Chemistry	Cyclic compounds with contiguous formal double bonds (delta Convention)
Hantzsch-Widman Nomenclature for Heteromonocyclic Rings	Non-standard Valence States (Lambda Convention)	Fused Ring Nomenclature
Nomenclature of Isotopically Modified Compounds (Section H)	Phane Nomenclature	Phane Nomenclature Part II
Glossary of Terms in Bioinorganic Chemistry	Glossary of Medicinal Chemistry Terms	IUPAC Atomic Weights and Periodic Table (2021 values) New values
Von Baeyer nomenclature	Spiro nomenclature	Natural product nomenclature (Section F)
Radicals, Ions & Radical Ion Nomenclature	Gold Book IUPAC definitions of terms.	Numerical Terms to 9999
Fullerene nomenclature	Numbering of Fullerenes	Regular single-strand organic polymers nomenclature
Drawing Structures	Drawing Stereochemistry	Watch this space

Recommendations by IUPAC and IUBMB
(International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
from the Joint Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature

Nomenclature of Amino Acids and Peptides	Nucleic Acid & Constituents Abbreviations and Symbols	Carbohydrate Nomenclature
Conformation of Polypeptide Chains	Conformations of Polynucleotide Chains	Conformation of Polysaccharide Chains
Glycopeptide, Glycoprotein & Peptidoglycan Nomenclature	Glycolipid Nomenclature	Cyclitol Nomenclature
Polymerised Amino Acids Nomenclature	Lipid Nomenclature	Newsletter (1996 – 2023)
Prenol Nomenclature Terpenoid precursors	Steroid Nomenclature	Vitamin D Nomenclature
Folic Acid Nomenclature	Carotenoid Nomenclature	Retinoid Nomenclature (Vitamin A)
Tocopherol Nomenclature (Vitamin E)	Vitamin B-6 Nomenclature (Pyridoxal)	Corrinoid Nomenclature (Vitamin B-12)
Flavonoid Nomenclature New	Biochemical Thermodynamics Draft revised version	Lignan Nomenclature
Nomenclature of Quinones with Isoprenoid Chains	Tetrapyrrole Nomenclature	Biochemical Phosphorus Compounds

Other recommendations, bibliographic data etc.

IUBMB recommendations	Nomenclature Nucleic Acid Sequences (incompletely specified bases)	Enzyme Nomenclature (EC 1 oxidoreductases, EC 2 transferases, EC 3 hydrolases, EC 4 lyases, EC 5 isomerases and EC 6 ligases)
Electron Transport Proteins Nomenclature	Peptide Hormone Nomenclature	Enzyme kinetics
Bibliography of IUPAC nomenclature recommendations	Bibliography of IUPAC Organic Chemical Nomenclature	Bibliography of IUPAC-IUBMB Biochemical Nomenclature
Bibliography of IUPAC Nomenclature Books	Bibliography of IUPAC Macromolecular Chemical Nomenclature	Bibliography of IUPAC Inorganic Chemical Nomenclature
IUPAC Recommendations under public review IUPAC Recommendations under author review	Pure and Applied Chemistry PDF files for all volumes up to 85 (3013)	Chemistry International also PDF file of text
Recently published IUPAC recommendations	IUPAC Recommendations IUPAC Technical Reports	Map of Usage Statistics (to January 2013)

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Last update 13 November 2023.

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