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These Recommendations expand and replace the Tentative Rules for Carbohydrate Nomenclature [11] issued in 1969 jointly by the IUPAC Commission on the Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry and the TUB-IUPAC Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature (CBN) and reprinted in [2]. They also replace other published JCBN Recommendations [3-71] that deal with specialized areas of carbohydrate terminology; however, these documents can be consulted for further examples. Of relevance to the field, though not incorporated into the present document, are the following recommendations:
- Nomenclature of cyclitols, 1973 [8]
- Numbering of atoms in myo-inositol, 1988 [9]
- Symbols for specifying the conformation of polysaccharide chains, 1981 [10]
- Nomenclature of glycoproteins, glycopeptides and peptidoglycans, 1985 [11]
- Nomenclature of glycolipids, in preparation [12]
The present Recommendations deal with the acyclic and cyclic forms of monosaccharides and their simple derivatives, as well as with the nomenclature of oligosaccharides and polysaccharides. They are additional to the Definitive Rules for the Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry [13,14] and are intended to govern those aspects of the nomenclature of carbohydrates not covered by those rules.

Pure & Appl. Chem., Vol. 68, No. 10, p. 1919-2008, 1996
© 1996 IUPAC
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