This book is intended to be an adjunct to the first volume which appeared in 1990 and which
contains aims, grammar, basic tenets and main classes of nomenclature. For these basic
aspects the reader is referred to the primary volume. The current volume is intended to deal
with the nomenclature of systems which have specific difficulties with condensed phases such
as solids or polymers and where various local nomenclatures have grown up to confuse the
practitioners or those entering the fields of research. It addresses such diverse chemistry as
polyanions, isotopic modification, tetrapyrroles, nitrogen hydrides, inorganic ring, chain,
polymer, and graphite intercalation compounds. It is aimed at bringing order into the nomenclature
of these specialized systems based on the more fundamental nomenclature described
in the primary volume and in the organic nomenclature publications. The volume is timely in
relation to the growth of inorganic polymers especially and it is hoped that the practitioners
will accept the orderly recommendations proposed and use it to simplify the literature especially
for the students who now begin to study such systems