In the meantime, new and improved versions of nomenclature software have become readily accessible, typically as add-ins or components of structure drawing programs.
Products from some other companies followed later in the 90's, but the use of their programs was limited due to severe restrictions to a quite small number of accepted classes of compounds or due to the generation of not preferred, unnecessarily lengthy names. In 1991, about 30 years after Garfield’s pioneering work on nomenclature algorithms, the first commercial software package – AutoNom – was released by the German Beilstein-Institut.
When computers became more popular and widely used in the last decades of the past century, several attempts were made to computerize and hence to facilitate the naming procedure. Despite this continuing process, nomenclature rules cannot be conclusive – yet their main intention remains the same: the transformation of a chemical structure into a name that can be read, printed, and communicated easily and from which the original structure can be generated. Like any modern language, systematic nomenclature is still under development as rule adoptions and enlargements to accommodate new subjects demonstrate. by the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) or by the Beilstein-Institut. These rules may be considered as the basic chemists' language, one that may occasionally be spoken using slightly different dialects – as e.g. Since then the IUPAC has been publishing nomenclature recommendations that provide the scientific community with general guidelines for naming chemical compounds systematically. Hence, the need for a systematic naming system grew and culminated in the first conference on systematic nomenclature held in Geneva in 1892 and in the foundation of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) in 1919. Initially, trivial names were used however, with the dramatic increase in the number of known substances, this naming method became impractical since these unsystematic names – typically derived from some property of the compound or its origin, for example, mandelic acid – did not provide any information about the compound's structure.
Since the very beginning of chemistry as a scientific discipline, names have been assigned to chemical compounds.
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