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The Merck Index: an Encyclopedia of Chemicals and Drugs
The fourteenth edition of The Merck Index contains 10,200 monographs describing significant chemicals, drugs, and biological substances. The entries cover a wide range of compounds which have been selected on the basis of present or historic importance and interest. For the purpose of illustrating the general monograph format, a typical monograph is depicted and the components are identified. While all possible categories of information in a monograph are described below, it must be emphasized that not all categories are present in every monograph. Monograph number, sequential accession numbers are assigned to monographs which are alphabetized by title. Monograph title, titles are usually simple chemical names or in the case of drugs, the commonly used generic name such as the USAN (United States Adopted Name) or INN (International Nonproprietary Name). Chemical abstracts registry number (s) appears following the title. Chemical abstracts name (s), the univerted from the CAS Index Name appears in native font following the CAS registry number. Chemical abstract name (s), the univerted form of the CAS index name appears in native font following the CAS registry number. Alternate name (s), other chemical names, trivial names, experimental drug codes and trademark the identify the entry are listed. Molecular formula, molecular weight, % composition; elements in the molecular formula are listed according to the Hill concention (C, H, then other elements in alphabetical order). Literature references, a concise reference history of each compound is provided. Structure for this edition, all structures have been drawn according to current conventions using CambridgeSoft's ChemDraw
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