Talk:Epoxide
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Why not ditch this article. It's horrible and wrong in most places. I've never heard of the "-epoxy" prefix, (usually "-epoxide" suffix) which is notated in the article as a suffix anyway. Also, no carbocation is generated in basic cleavage reactions.
- Support merge. I presume by "this article" the previous person means the epoxides article that is to be merged with this one? (The things you refer to are there, not here) Yes, I agree that the Epoxides article is bad- 90 degrees is wrong, the carbocation is wrong with base as you say. The epoxy prefix is correct, though, or at least I have seen it- and try a Google search for epoxypropane, it's there. The link to oxirane should stay- but describing it as linked to two methyl groups is horrendous! THIS article here (epoxide) is rather better, and should form the core of the new article IMHO. Walkerma 01:21, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
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- Yes, sorry, I meant to say "epoxy" suffix... Arg.
Organic chemist to the rescue. I'll keep adding to this page till the basic epoxide chemistry is covered. Don't hesitate to correct my errors.
Can I suggest a diagram at the beginning of an epoxy group? I'm not a chemist, and it took me a good minute of parsing the start of the article to work out that:
0 - C
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C
was the characteristic bit of an epoxy. (If I understood it correctly). 129.94.6.30 05:21, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
