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Non Life Sciences => Chemistry => Topic started by: chiralSPO on 08/06/2017 20:51:25

Title: Can you make an IUPAC Haiku?
Post by: chiralSPO on 08/06/2017 20:51:25

Can you come up with a chemically valid chemical structure, for which the IUPAC name can logically be written as a haiku*? For structures with names, see attached.

2,2-dibromo-
5,7,9-trimethoxy
undecanamide

3-bromomethyl-
1,2,4-triiodo-
5-methylbenzene

2-cyclohexyl-
4-trifluoromethyl
cyclopentanone

*3 lines of text, the first and last having 5 syllables while the middle has 7.

Title: Re: Can you make an IUPAC Haiku?
Post by: Bored chemist on 08/06/2017 21:08:36

No because I'm not clever enough, but I can quote this limerick

A mosquito was heard to complain
That a chemist had poisoned his brain.
The cause of his sorrow,
was para dichloro
diphenyltrichloroethane.

Title: Re: Can you make an IUPAC Haiku?
Post by: chiralSPO on 08/06/2017 21:11:11

Quote from: Bored chemist on 08/06/2017 21:08:36

A mosquito was heard to complain
That a chemist had poisoned his brain.
The cause of his sorrow,
was para dichloro
diphenyltrichloroethane.

LOL

Title: Re: Can you make an IUPAC Haiku?
Post by: Bored chemist on 08/06/2017 22:06:13

1,8-dibromo-
5,6,7-trimethoxy
isododecane
 
Might, on a good day react under crosse wurtz coupling conditions with bromomethane to make
1,8-dimethyl-
5,6,7-trimethoxy
isododecane

Which, in appealingly bad yield, could be substituted with ethanol and acid to make

1,8-dimethyl-
5,6,7-triethoxy
isododecane

Title: Re: Can you make an IUPAC Haiku?
Post by: chiralSPO on 08/06/2017 22:24:01

Great! See, it's not so difficult.