[nox]

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.

[opsomath]

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...."

[Dan]

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.