SIMPLE NOMENCLATURE FOR CHLORINATED BORNANES, BORNENES AND BORNADIENES FROM WHICH STRUCTURAL INFORMATION CAN BE DIRECTLY DEDUCED

Toxaphene is a complex mixture mainly consisting of polychlorinated bo rnanes, bornenes, bornadienes and camphenes. The systematic nomenclatu re of the individual compounds is long and, therefore, not very easy t o use. There have been several proposals for simpler nomenclatures for these classes of compounds, but these all have serious limitations if structural information has to be deduced. The nomenclature proposed i n this paper provides direct structural information. In addition, the presence of a pair of enantiomers can easily be read from the coded na me. (C) 1997 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd.