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Chemistry Forums for Students => Organic Chemistry Forum => Organic Chemistry Forum for Graduate Students and Professionals => Topic started by: nox on October 04, 2011, 08:41:07 PM

Title: ChemDraw naming fail
Post by: nox on October 04, 2011, 08:41:07 PM

What do you guys do when ChemDraw gives the highly annoying "A name could not be generated for this structure" error? I'd try to name the compounds myself but I'm making these ridiculous hexacyclic heterocycles, and I've a feeling the IUPAC name would have 10+ syllables...

Edit: Can't post any structures right now since this is still a work in progress, sorry.

Title: Re: ChemDraw naming fail
Post by: opsomath on October 04, 2011, 09:47:22 PM

Make up something that sounds legit, abbreviate it with three letters, then refer to it by those three letters for the rest of the manuscript. "Bis(diazo)spirofluorene 1 (DSF1) was synthesized by...."

Title: Re: ChemDraw naming fail
Post by: Dan on October 05, 2011, 03:36:25 AM

Quote from: nox on October 04, 2011, 08:41:07 PM

What do you guys do when ChemDraw gives the highly annoying "A name could not be generated for this structure" error?

I trim off (or simplify) some substituents and have CD name the core, then add in the substituents myself.