IUPAC INTERNATIONAL UNION OF PURE AND APPLIED

Recommendations are presented for the nomenclature and terminology of graphite intercalation compounds, i.e. compounds that retain the planarity of the layers in the graphite structure. Not included are compounds with covalent bonding of heteroatoms to the carbon atoms which leads to a sp3 hybridization of the carbon atoms and a corresponding loss of planarity of the layers. Rules for a structural notation are described in addition to those for the naming and the formulation of graphite intercalation compounds.