Abstract
Despite the advent of technology that has enabled chemical structures to be drawn graphically on a VDU screen, making the structure ‘understood’ via a connection table, and programs that can enable the structure to be searched both at the structural and sub-structural level, there is still a need for chemical names for a variety of purposes. Compounds need to be cited as text in chemical patents, and in other forms of technical literature such as research papers. They may be the invention themselves or the intermediates, reactants and reagents that are used in the preparation. Whilst these may well be exemplified with chemical structures, either drawn as full structures or as a Markush structure in a tabular form, they will also be referred to by a chemical name.
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