Friday, January 1, 2010

“locant”の化学名の大文字表記について(I)

◎ Capitalization of chemical names with locants
In chemical names with locants, all syllabic portions are lowercased in the middle of a sentence. The first letter of the syllabic portion is capitalized when used at the beginning of a sentence or in a title/heading. (Note that only the first syllabic portion is capitalized for chemical names with locants at the beginning of a sentence.)


Middle of a sentence:
Wrong: LDA was added to solutions of 1-Bromo-3-Chloropropane.
Right: LDA was added to solutions of 1-bromo-3-chloropropane.

Start of a sentence/Title:
Wrong: 1-bromo-3-chloropropane solutions were used to extract
the tissues.
Right: 1-Bromo-3-chloropropane solutions were used to extract
the tissues.


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クリムゾン・インタラクティブ -> 英文校正・校閲エナゴ -> 英語テープ起こしボックスタブ -> 翻訳サービスユレイタス -> 翻訳会社クリムゾン インタラクティブ

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