Naming Methods
The recommendations describe a number of different ways in which compounds can be named. These are:
- compositional naming (e.g. sodium chloride)
- substitutive naming based on parent hydrides (GeCl2Me2 dichlorodimethylgermane)
- additive naming ( fluoridotrioxidomanganese)
Additionally there are recommendations for the following:
- naming of cluster compounds
- allowed names for inorganic acids and derivatives
- naming of solid phases e.g. non-stoichiometric phases
For a simple compound such as AlCl3 the different naming conventions yield the following:
- compositional: aluminium trichloride (stoichiometrically) or dialuminium hexachloride (dimer)
- substitutional: trichloralumane
- additive: trichloridoaluminium; hexachloridoaluminium (dimer without structural information); di-μ-chlorido-tetrachlorido-1κ2Cl,2κ2Cl-dialuminium (dimer with structural information)
Read more about this topic: IUPAC Nomenclature Of Inorganic Chemistry 2005
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