IUPAC

To provide an up to date list of preferred, acceptable, and not acceptable (outdated) structure-based names for constitutional units and for organic polymers.

During the last decades the general principles on how to name polymers have been modified several times. In addition, nomenclature of organic chemistry has made a tremendous development. This project intends to remove inconsistencies arising from recommendations for naming polymers being published at different times. In principle it will comprise the following tasks:

1. To screen all relevant old and current IUPAC polymer nomenclature documents for structure-based and source-based names or names of constitutional units and list the various used names together with the corresponding document name or acronym and year.

2. To set up a table that contains all names used in IUPAC documents for a given polymer or constitutional unit.

3. To classify these names into preferred, acceptable and not acceptable.