Talk:Anthracene

Offensive External link
The "mbox-small plainlinks sistersitebox" on this page contains a 7000x7000px invisible image with a link through shortening service gee.su to an offensive FB page. I inspected the HTML. I don't know enough of WP infrastructure to know what is going on, but this is definitely weird and wrong. I don't see an edit on this page that would have caused this, but the same change doesn't seem to have propagated to every WP page with a sistersitebox, which is roughly all WP pages. So... raising my hand or pointing my finger or something.

IUPAC name
The c is not correct — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.221.89.14 (talk) 16:51, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
 * "Anthracene" is given as the IUPAC name at the PubChem link in the infobox. What would you suggest as the IUAPC name instead?  -- Ed (Edgar181) 16:53, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

Diagram needed
The discussion of 9,10-dehydroanthracene and 1,4-dehydroanthracene as possible reduction products would be clearer with a diagram showing the numbering of the carbons. Dirac66 (talk) 14:18, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

Toxicology reference
The reference for "Unlike many other polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), anthracene is not classified as carcinogenic as listed by the U.S. agency OSHA" leads to a sigma aldrich page that doesn't have any data on it. All the other sources I have found say that it is a carcinogen, such as an actual sigma aldrich page (http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/help-welcome/hazard-and-precautionary-statements.html#pictogram). As such I will be removing the statementDeadlyops (talk) 00:33, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for catching that glitch. I will go back and repair that section.  --Smokefoot (talk) 01:27, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

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Hatnote required?
It occurred to me that people may confuse it with Anthropocene, and my suspicions would seem to be confirmed by the existence of Anthrocene as a redirect. 88.145.189.130 (talk) 20:11, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

Interest in a short historical section ala 1,2-dichloroethane
The compound was discovered by Auguste Laurent in 1835. I think the articles on his derivatives ought to make mention of him and the significance of the compound. This compound was very important in the development of the atomic theory in the 1800s. There is precedent for the inclusion of at minimum a pithy historical discussion in articles of this nature - see the article on 1,2-dichloroethane. The crystalline nature of the stuff was interestingly also very important as well. See DeMilt, Clara, "Auguste Laurent, Founder of Modern Chemistry." Chymia, Vol. 4 (1953), p. 85-114. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27757164. These compounds are also discussed in the later memoires of Jean-Baptiste Dumas, Gerhardt, and Pasteur. 24.170.207.220 (talk) 06:46, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

To add to article
Basic information to add to this article (in order to help make it more properly encyclopedic): the etymology of the term "anthracene." 173.88.246.138 (talk) 05:09, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

Benz(a)anthracene
Should this article include a mention of Benz(a)anthracene? 173.88.246.138 (talk) 05:10, 15 August 2023 (UTC)