Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry

{{short description|Book describing the nomenclature of organic compounds}}

{{about|the book|the rules and recommendations contained in the book|IUPAC nomenclature of organic chemistry}}

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| publisher = Royal Society of Chemistry

| pub_date = 1979 (1st edition)

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| pages = 1612 pages

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| isbn = 978-0854041824

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Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry, commonly referred to by chemists as the Blue Book, is a collection of recommendations on organic chemical nomenclature published at irregular intervals by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). A full edition was published in 1979,{{Cite book |last=International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. Commission on the Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n3w6AQAAIAAJ |title=Nomenclature of organic chemistry |publisher=Pergamon Press |others=J. Rigaudy, S. P. Klesney, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry | year=1979 |isbn=0-08-022369-9 |edition=4th |location=Oxford |oclc=5008199}} an abridged and updated version of which was published in 1993 as A Guide to IUPAC Nomenclature of Organic Compounds.{{Cite book |last=International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. Commission on the Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6-WDngEACAAJ |title=A guide to IUPAC nomenclature of organic compounds : recommendations 1993 |date=1993 |publisher=Blackwell Scientific Publications |others=Robert Panico, Warren H. Powell, Jean-Claude Richer |isbn=0-632-03702-4 |location=Oxford |oclc=27431284}} Both of these are now out-of-print in their paper versions, but are available free of charge in electronic versions. After the release of a draft version for public comment in 2004{{citation | title = Preferred names in the nomenclature of organic compounds | url = http://www.iupac.org/web/ins/2001-043-1-800 | publisher = International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry | accessdate = 2009-11-22 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20091219183334/http://www.iupac.org/web/ins/2001-043-1-800 | archivedate = 2009-12-19 }}. and the publication of several revised sections in the journal Pure and Applied Chemistry, a fully revised edition was published in print in 2013{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QHMoDwAAQBAJ&dq=Nomenclature+of+Organic+Chemistry+1979&pg=PP1 |title=Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry : IUPAC Recommendations and Preferred Names 2013 |date=2014 |publisher=Royal Society of Chemistry |others=Henri A. Favre, Warren H. Powell, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry |isbn=978-1-84973-306-9 |location=Cambridge, England |oclc=865143943}} and its online version is also available.{{Cite web |title=Blue Book |url=https://iupac.qmul.ac.uk/BlueBook/PDF/ |access-date=2023-03-22 |website=iupac.qmul.ac.uk}}