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Table 10 General classes of compounds in decreasing order of

priority for choosing and naming a principal characteristic group

1 Radicals
2 Anions
3 Cations
4 Zwitterionic compounds
Acidos (in the order COOH, C(O)O2H; then their S and Se derivatives followed by
5
sulfonic, sulfinic, selenonic, etc., phosphonic, arsonic, etc., acids)
6 Anhydrides
7 Esters
8 Acid halides
9 Amides
10 Hydrazides
11 Imides
12 Nitriles
13 Aldehydes followed by Thioaldehydes, Selenoaldehydes, and Teluroaldehydes
14 Ketones followed by Thioketones, Selenoketones, and Telluroketones
15 Alcohols and Phenols followed by Thiols, Selenols, and Tellurols
Hydroperoxides followed by Thiohydroperoxides, Selenohydroperoxides, and
16
Tellurohydroperoxides
17 Amines
18 Imines
19 Hydrazines, Phosphanes, etc.
20 Ethers followed by Sulfides, Selenides, and Tellurides
21 Peroxides followed by Disulfides, Diselenides, and Ditellurides

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Table 5 Suffixes and prefixes for some important characteristic

groups in substitutive nomenclature In alphabetical order

Class Prefix Suffix

Acid halides halocarbonyl carbonyl halide
- - --- - oyl halide
Alcoholates, Phenolates -oxido -olate
Alcohols, Phenols - hydroxy ol
Aldehydes formyl carbaldehyde
oxo al
Amides carbamoyl carboxamide
--- amide
Amidines carbamimidoyl carboximidamide
imidamide
Amines amino- -amine
Carboxylates carboxylato -carboxylate
oate
Carboxylic acids carboxy carboxylic acid
oic acid
Ethers R)-oxy -----
Esters (of carboxylic acids) (R)-oxycarbonyl- (R)...carboxylate
(R)...oate -yl
Hydroperoxides hydroperoxy - - ---
Imines imino imine
(R)-imino
Ketones oxo one
Nitriles cyano carbonitrile
nitrile
Peroxides (R)-peroxy
Salts (of carboxylic acids) (cation) ...carboxylate
(cation) ...oate
Sulfides (R)-sulfanyl-
--- Sulfonates sulfonato- sulfonate
Sulfonic acid - sulfo- sulfonic acid
Thiolates sulfido thiolate
Thiols Sulfanyl thiol