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It's interesting that one group of compounds is named using the Latin, in this case for "window" (fenestrane), but "ladderane" makes use of an ordinary English
by jihadjihad 5y ago
It's interesting that one group of compounds is named using the Latin, in this case for "window" (fenestrane), but "ladderane" makes use of an ordinary English word (by way of Old English and Germanic).
I guess I would have expected a Latin-derived name like "escalane" instead.
- _Microft 5y agoFollow the first link/s in these articles and somewhere you will find „jawsamycin“. A part of this molecule looks a lot like a row of teeth…
- ray__ 5y agoThe common names for compounds/compound classes like this are usually just left to the person that discovers them. The standardized naming scheme is set by the IUPAC and the name that you get for any reasonably complicated molecule will be a mouthful.
- gilleain 5y agoA mouthful? You're not wrong ... https://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/searchId.do?chebiId=132927 https://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/searchId.do?chebiId=132927 "8-[(1S,2R,3R,4S,6S,7S,8S,9S,12R)-pentacyclo[6.4.0.0^2,7.0^3,6.0^9,12]dodecan-4-yl]octanoic acid" Not sure how I would format the ring closure notation (like 0^2,7 is meant to be superscript)