Nomenclature of Sulfoxides and Sulfones

They have the grouping >SO and >SO2, respectively (recommendation C-631.1). The name is constructed from the radicals attached to the sulfur, followed by the word Sulfoxide and Sulfone, respectively.

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Full Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Granada, with a long-standing research career in Computational Chemistry and molecular modeling and design.