ACD/Name Chemist Version

Technical Info

ACD/Labs' industry-standard nomenclature product, ACD/Name, is renown as the most accurate and comprehensive naming software tool available today. The IUPAC naming algorithms used in ACD/Name are incorporated into the new product, ACD/Name Chemist Version, to help chemists quickly and easily generate IUPAC systematic names according to the prevailing set of current IUPAC recommendations for almost any organic structure and selected classes of biochemical, organometallic, and inorganic structures.

Included nomenclature settings:

• Use of commonly-agreed name instead of pure systematic name (toluene, not methylbenzen).
• Advanced enclosing marks (use of {[()]} brackets).
• Use of prop-1-ene, not 1-propene, for the position of locants.
• Use of extended Hantzsch-Widman system (phosphinine, not phosphorin).
• Use of the additional trivial or semi-systematic retained names, suffixes, and prefixes according to A Guide to Nomenclature of Organic Compounds (Recommendations 1993) (hexahelicene, not benzo[c]naphtho[1,2-g]phenanthrene).
• Use of thio instead of sulfanyl.
• Absolute stereoconfiguration naming is enabled, but wedge direction is ignored.
• Tautomers are named as drawn.
• Retained natural product and biochemical names are used for steroids, alkaloids, terpenes, carbohydrates, common amino acids, and peptides.
• Naming in English language.
• The first letter of name is not capitalized.

Review the description of ACD/Name, the IUPAC module, and the Name-to-Structure module for the complete list of chemical classes, and get more details on the algorithm, publications, and evaluations.