Thursday, January 23, 2020

nomenclature - IUPAC names accidentally differing in hyphen only


Here is an example of two compounds




CHX3CHX2COOCHX3

vs (CHX3)X2CHCOOX



i.e.



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vs
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whose possible IUPAC names




methyl propanoate
vs
methylpropanoate



accidentally differ only in presence/absence of a space. (Note that complete, unambiguous name of the second compound is 2-methylpropanoate)


Is there an (accidental) example of two IUPAC names for different compounds, that differ only in presence/absence of a hyphen ("-") instead?


(Question might sound hypothetical, strange and inappropriate, but is related to to this one)


UPDATE: Mentioned ‘methylpropanoate’ preferred IUPAC name is 2-methylpropanoate. There's a better example pair:




  • phenyl acetate (CHX3COOPh)

  • phenylacetate (PhCHX2COOX)


Note that in some language localized official IUPAC nomenclatures, the names really differ by the hyphen instead of the space (e.g. in Czech: fenyl-acetát vs fenylacetát), but I was wondering about the English nomenclature.




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