The IUPAC notation system does not provide a nomenclature for interlocked, mechanically linked molecules beyond very simple catenanes and rotaxanes [1]. Whereas simple catenanes and rotaxanes like 1 and 2 can be named explicitly as [2]catenane and [2]rotaxane according to IUPAC, [1] one already brakes new ground with the naming of additionally bridged types of compounds -such as "pretzelanes" 3 [2] which are easily accessible nowadays.Abstract. We introduce a systematic nomenclature for mechanically linked molecules -such as catenanes, rotaxanes, and assemblies derived from these structural elements -which comes up to the increasing complexity of already synthesized interlocked molecules and the ones to be expected in future. Like in the naming of other substance classes (polycycles, ly used by chemists, if they are constructed from easily comprehensible characteristic parts, basing on immediately convincing rules. Like in the former cases mentioned above a new nomenclature seems to be sensible, which contains -analogously to the bicyclo nomenclature of von Baeyer and to the crown compounds, cyclophanes [3], podands [4], and dendrimers [5] -a characteristic part of the name, for example in brackets, so that it indicates the "overall structure" and its most important features, such as e.g. the type, number, and sequence of the mechanical bonds particularly relevant in this case. phanes, crown compounds, podands, dendrimers) we attach importance to the fact, that certain units in the name, e.g. expressions in brackets, quickly convey an idea of the molecular architecture. Furthermore, this modular nomenclature reveals as many analogies to the IUPAC nomenclature as possible.