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Basic Principles of the CIP‐System and Proposals for a Revision
Author(s) -
Prelog Vladlmir,
Helmchen Günter
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition in english
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 0570-0833
DOI - 10.1002/anie.198205671
Subject(s) - notation , basis (linear algebra) , epistemology , computer science , algebra over a field , philosophy , mathematics , pure mathematics , linguistics , geometry
“From Configurational Notation of Stereoisomers to the Conceptual Basis of Stereochemistry” is the title of a lecture [V. Prelog, ACS Symp. Ser. No. 12 (1975) 179] in which the chronologically and alphabetically third member of the CIP‐triumvirate discusses the history of the CIP‐system. The experience accumulated in the meantime, particularly the efforts to teach computers to use the system as described in 1966 by Cahn, Ingold and Prelog, has shown that certain of its aspects must be more strictly formulated and others modified. Questions dealing with stereoisomers (and stereotopicity), which previously have been treated predominantly in a pragmatic manner, are now discussed in a systematic way.