How many main parts of Nomenclature of Carbon Compounds?
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In earlier days, people knew organic compounds by their common names. For example, methane was ‘marsh gas’. This is because we found it in marshy places. With the evolution of so many organic compounds and continuous addition of new compounds, dealing with trivial names became a difficulty.
Therefore, scientists introduced a proper method in order to name the organic compounds. This uniform system for naming the compounds is the IUPAC system, which is the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.
Nomenclature of organic compounds
Features of the Trivial System
The name of an organic compound, when in a non-systematic manner or vernacular name is what is known as a trivial system. There are no particular set of rules for the trivial name of the compound. In this system, names are usually simple like acetic acid, toluene, and phenol etc. For example, tartaric acid is a carbolic acid that we usually find in tamarind. But in IUPAC, it is 2,3-dihydroxy-1,4-Butanedioic acid.