Re:New drug offers hope to those with severe migraines
by pietroglyph on Friday May 18, 2018 @12:52AM
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Serious question: Can anyone pronounce a compound name that long in practice/conversation? Is there a specific naming rule?
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Re:New drug offers hope to those with severe migraines
by isoprophlex on Friday May 18, 2018 @01:13AM
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It looks intimidating but there's a very much countable set of possible sub-units that makes up those words.
With enough organic chem experience, pronouncing and grokking structure from a name becomes second nature.
In my head it immediately becomes chopped up into understandable units: "di phenyl methyl sulfinyl acetamide"
Re:New drug offers hope to those with severe migraines
by kazinator on Friday May 18, 2018 @09:30AM
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There is more than one naming rule for organic compounds. The standardized one is IUPAC. That is to say:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IUPAC_nomenclature_of_organic_...
IUPAC is a standards body; that is their nomenclature.
From an IUPAC name, you can work out the molecular structure but IUPAC names are often longer than older names for the same compounds.
Re:New drug offers hope to those with severe migraines
by gliese1337 on Friday May 18, 2018 @01:15AM
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There are chemical naming conventions, though I certainly couldn't describe them in detail. But yeah, I can usually pronounce such things if occasion calls for it. One simply has to be familiar with all of the common morphemes for different common bits of chemical structures, and read them off like a sequence of separate words that incidentally happen to have had the spaces removed.
Re:New drug offers hope to those with severe migraines
by justinator on Friday May 18, 2018 @01:11AM
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Germans?
Re:New drug offers hope to those with severe migraines
by _acme on Friday May 18, 2018 @05:09AM
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No one would ever use that terminology in practice/conversation.
Re:New drug offers hope to those with severe migraines
by magic_beans on Friday May 18, 2018 @06:07AM
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You’ve never met any pharmacists then?