A name that expresses the characteristic group as a class term written as a separate
word following the name of a parent structure or a name derived from a parent structure.
In the latter case, when the derived name is that for a substituent group (formerly
called a '
radical'), the method has been called '
radicofunctional nomenclature'.
Source:
Cite as:
IUPAC. Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 2nd ed. (the "Gold Book"). Compiled by
A. D. McNaught and A.Wilkinson. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997).
XML on-line corrected version: http://goldbook.iupac.org (2006-) created by M. Nic,
J. Jirat, B. Kosata; updates compiled by A. Jenkins. ISBN 0-9678550-9-8.
https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.
