Geneva Rules

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The Geneva Rules are the rules established by the International Chemistry Committee in 1892. These rules were the beginning of international cooperation for organic chemistry nomenclature. [1] They were decided upon by a group of 34 of leading chemists from 9 different European nations. Their goal was to provide rules for the naming of aliphatic compounds, some of which are still in place today such as the longest chain provides the parent name and a functional group is indicated by a suffix. They also intended to extend the rules to include naming schemes for cyclic compounds however this did not occur.

Contents

The rules

The Geneva rules for nomenclature were described in 62 paragraphs. [2] Some of these rules were:

Attendees

(incomplete) list of attendees [2]
NameCity
Ph. BarbierLyons
E.PaternoPalermo
C.GraebeGeneva
A Von Baeyer Munich
S. Cannizzaro Rome
Ch.FriedelParis
A. LiebenVienna
J.Gladstone London
A.CossaTurin
W. M. RamsayLondon
H.ArmstronLondon
A.HallerNancy
P.CazeneuveLyons
E. FischerWurzburg
A. Le BelParis

Further reading

Evieux, E. A. (1954-06-01). "The Geneva Congress on Organic Nomenclature, 1892". Journal of Chemical Education. 31 (6): 326. Bibcode:1954JChEd..31..326E. doi:10.1021/ed031p326. ISSN   0021-9584.

Hepler-Smith, Evan (2015-02-01). ""Just as the Structural Formula Does": Names, Diagrams, and the Structure of Organic Chemistry at the 1892 Geneva Nomenclature Congress". Ambix. 62 (1): 1–28. doi:10.1179/1745823414y.0000000006. ISSN   0002-6980. PMID   26173340. S2CID   910247.

References

  1. "Origin and Evolution of Organic Nomenclature". Nomenclature of Organic Compounds. Advances in Chemistry. Vol. 126. AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. 1974-06-01. pp. 1–5. doi:10.1021/ba-1974-0126.ch001. ISBN   978-0841201910.
  2. 1 2 Evieux, E. A. (1954). "The Geneva Congress on Organic Nomenclature, 1892". Journal of Chemical Education. 31 (6): 326. Bibcode:1954JChEd..31..326E. doi:10.1021/ed031p326.
  3. Crosland, Maurice P. (2004). Historical Studies in the Language of Chemistry. Courier Corporation. ISBN   9780486438023.