IUPAC

International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry

Project: Source-Based Generic Nomenclature for Polymers

Number: 410/21/93
Start: 01 January 1993
End: 31 December 2001
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Objective

Present-day high performance polymer materials are becoming increasingly difficult to name concisely utilizing existing macromolecular nomenclature. This project aims to provide simplified rules for identifying polymers and polymer materials clearly and concisely according to their type and monomer sources.

Progress

The document is progressing well. It has been expanded to include nomenclature for homopolymer molecules and modified polymer molecules. The document has been restructured and is now much clearer in its statements and objectives. New versions were prepared for the Commission meeting in 1998 and 1999, and the comments of Outside Experts have been received.

A revised document is submitted to public review comments until 28 February 2001

> see provisional recommendations

Project completed - IUPAC Recommendations 2001 published in Pure Appl. Chem. 73(9), pp. 1511-1519, 2001.

+- Errata Pure Appl. Chem. Vol. 74, No. 10, p. 2019, 2002