Abstract
On account of the plethora of organometall(oid)ic compounds and the ever contentious question of their assignment to organic chemistry on the one hand or inorganic chemistry on the other, the development of a binding systematic nomenclature for this domain always was and still is fraught with major difficulties and is thus far from being settled. All that can be given here, therefore, is just a survey of current practice supplemented by sketches of a future scenario determined by emerging tendencies towards tighter systematization. Meanwhile it has become abundantly clear that at least two naming variants will ultimately persist: one organic, substitutive, and one inorganic, coordinative.
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Hellwinkel, D. (2001). Metalorganic and Metalloidorganic Compounds. In: Systematic Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56765-0_6
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