Bring the power of IUPAC naming to your desktop!

ACD/Name (Chemist Version) offers a standardized set of features for quick and simple generation of IUPAC names, and structures from names. It is a streamlined version of our popular ACD/Name software.

View a full description and pricing on our web store.

Amides and Imides

Imides Rule C-827

827.1 - Imides of dicarboxylic acids are named by replacing the ending "-carboxylic acid" by "-carboximide", or, for trivial names, "-ic acid" by "-imide". Such compounds bearing a substituent on the nitrogen atom are named as N-substituted imides.

Examples to Rule C-827.1

827.2 - Names of radicals derived from imides by removal of the hydrogen atom attached to the imide-nitrogen atom are formed from the names of the corresponding imides by changing the ending "-imide" to "-imido-".

Examples to Rule C-827.2

827.3 - When the nomenclature of Rules C-827.1 and C-827.2 is inconvenient, imides may be named as heterocyclic compounds.

Examples to Rule C-827.3

See Recommendations'93 R-5.7.8

Next:
Nitriles, Isocyanides, and Their Derivatives C-831, C-832, C-833, C-834
Hydroxylamines and Related Compounds C-841, C-842, C-843
Nitroso and Nitro Compounds C-851, C-852
Amine Radical Ions C-861
search
This HTML reproduction of Sections A, B and C of IUPAC "Blue Book" is as close as possible to the published version [see Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry, Sections A, B, C, D, E, F, and H, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1979. Copyright 1979 IUPAC.] If you need to cite these rules please quote this reference as their source.

Published with permission of the IUPAC by Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., www.acdlabs.com, +1(416)368-3435 tel, +1(416)368-5596 fax. For comments or suggestions please contact webmaster@acdlabs.com