Chemical nomenclatures and the computer

Proposals for an international system of chemical nomenclature were first made at Geneva in 1892. A hundred years on, this book examines the present international standard and the more important of other nomenclatures now in use. Most of them have not been developed with computer processing in mind; by using the computer to examine them, the author is able to highlight any disadvantages, and to suggest how nomenclature systems ought perhaps to be developing.

A new nodal numbering method for the chemical graph is proposed. The methods and proposals are equally applicable to organic and inorganic structures.