Chapter 35
Nomenclature of Medicinal Compounds
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
To learn IUPAC naming of chemical structure
Common heterocyclic nucleus occured in medicinal chemistry
Some examples of drug molecule
35.1 INTRODUCTION
‘Nomenclature’, in chemistry, is a system of naming compounds using various nomenclatural operations in accordance with a set of principles, rules, and conventions. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) have developed systematic nomenclature, a set of rules that allows any compound to be given a unique name that can be deduced directly from its chemical structure. Systematic names can be divided into three parts: one describes the basic framework/skeleton; one describes the functional groups; and one ...
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