Description
Systematic Nomenclature of Organic Compounds aids chemical
communication through the presentation of methods and their use in
forming reasonable, acceptable, and unambiguous names for organic
compounds. It describes in a common language so that the nomenclature is
made useful and understandable for both undergraduate and graduate
students. A diagrammatic presentation is given to create interest in the topic
along with a comparison of different nomenclature operations for some
compounds with some typical structures. A number of examples are
discussed in a systematic step-by-step approach.
Ranjit S. Dhillon is a retired Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Punjab
Agricultural University (PAU), Ludhiana, Punjab, India.
Chinnappan Baskar is an Associate Professor of Chemistry and Officiating
Director of THDC Institute of Hydropower Engineering and Technology,
Uttarakhand Technical University, Dehradun, India.
Shikha Baskar is Guest Faculty of Chemistry at Women Institute of
Technology, Dehradun, India.
