WISENOM. A formal organic chemical nomenclature system

Krishnamurthy, EV (1982) WISENOM. A formal organic chemical nomenclature system. In: Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences, 22 (3). pp. 152-160.

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Abstract

A formal chemical nomenclature system WISENOM based on a context-free grammar and graph coding is described. The system is unique, unambiguous, easily pronounceable, encodable, and decodable for organic compounds. Being a formal system, every name is provable as a theorem or derivable as a terminal sentence by using the basic axioms and rewrite rules. The syntax in Backus-Naur form, examples of name derivations, and the corresponding derivation trees are provided. Encoding procedures to convert connectivity tables to WISENOM, parsing, and decoding are described.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences
Publisher:	American Chemical Society
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to American Chemical Society.
Department/Centre:	Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Mathematics
Date Deposited:	29 Dec 2009 11:59
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 05:36
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/21247

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