Talk:Acetamidine hydrochloride

Proper image of structure
The actual chemical structure of acetamidine hydrochloride is a salt of protonated acetamidinium cation and chloride anion. Acetamidinium has identical C\sN bonds, so that suggests delocalisation of the positive charge after protonation of the C\dNH nitrogen.

I've tinkered with a couple molecular formula editors, but getting one to nicely display the delocalisation/resonance that also exports to SVG and nicely formats ions has been an issue.

Looking at glycine methyl ester hydrochloride suggests the convention for Wikipedia is to use the actual chemical structure rather than the "hydrochloride" that keeps HCl separate as seen on e.g. NIH's website, but I'd like to confirm this. I can make the image by hand in Inkscape, but don't want to go to that trouble until I'm certain it matches standards. (Or until I have a long enough block of time bereft of other todos, whatever first.)


 * Take a read of Manual of Style/Chemistry/Structure drawing. I agree with your idea about not making HCl separate in the diagram. There is some flexibility in drawing, but please be as realistic as is still educational. Eg we can squash the structure flat into 2 dimensions. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 21:46, 5 June 2024 (UTC)