Can't we have nearly anything (in theory) with the hydro- prefix?
Ammonia is a hydronitride. Water is a hydroxide.
There could also be hydroborides. Hydroflourides would be strange, with only one possible one (FH).
Hydruranides would be cool, too.
Hydrogen bonds with most things, like Carbon.
I was thinking in more of the hydrocarbon sense.
Hydroxygen maybe?
H2O and H2O2 are the more notable ones. Water and Hydrogen Peroxide. A trait of these is that they can ONLY have two hydrogen, no matter how many Oxygen.
Hydrocarbons can be alkanes, aromatics, alkenes and alkynes. They also have cyclo variations. You're right in thinking that there are thousands of combinations of possible hydrocarbons.
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Hydrocarbons can be alkanes, aromatics, alkenes and alkynes. They also have cyclo variations. You're right in thinking that there are thousands of combinations of possible hydrocarbons.
Yeah, and similar features come up in compounds of nitrogen and hydrogen, as well as ones of oxygen and hydrogen.
Well, if you think of carbon as a suffix instead of hydro as a prefix, then such a system exists for a few other elements. There are a few varieties of halogen based organic compounds. Fluorocarbons, chlorofluorocarbons, and a host of others.
Carbon gets these names because it chains easily. Nitrogen doesn't, because nitrogen chains are unstable. Hydrogen doesn't have many groups of molecules named for it, because it just bonds to chains readily.
Ammonia is a hydronitride. Water is a hydroxide.
There could also be hydroborides. Hydroflourides would be strange, with only one possible one (FH).
Hydruranides would be cool, too.
Hydrogen bonds with most things, like Carbon.
What do you guys think?
I was thinking in more of the hydrocarbon sense.
Hydroxygen maybe?
H2O and H2O2 are the more notable ones. Water and Hydrogen Peroxide. A trait of these is that they can ONLY have two hydrogen, no matter how many Oxygen.
Yeah, and similar features come up in compounds of nitrogen and hydrogen, as well as ones of oxygen and hydrogen.
Carbon gets these names because it chains easily. Nitrogen doesn't, because nitrogen chains are unstable. Hydrogen doesn't have many groups of molecules named for it, because it just bonds to chains readily.
Nitrites and Nitrides.