Talk:Fluoromethylidyne

Deletion
Object. Google gives 5170 results on methylidyne. Article needs expansion.

Methylidyne is also known as Methine - not the same - that's a group not a compound.  Ron h jones (Talk) 22:28, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

A search on Reaxys on the CAS number (3889-75-6) gives basically two hits  Ron h jones (Talk) 22:40, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) poly carbon fluoride; carbon monofluoride; carbonmonofluoride; fluoromethylidyne; graphite fluoride; polyfluorocarbon; (CF)n - made from carbon and fluorine, to give a polymer with the basic structure (CF)n
 * 2) monofluoro-carbene - short lived radical.

”irreverably”
I wasn't sure if that was supposed to be ”irreparably” or ”irrevocably” (it's not very similar to any of those words if you ask me), so I just removed it. Nirmos (talk) 23:26, 22 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Irreversably. --Plasmic Physics (talk) 09:39, 23 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Irreversably —> Irreversibly --Shinkolobwe (talk) 15:38, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Definition of organic compound
In a recent edit made by User:Plasmic Physics, the tag on was reverted to  according to the argument that an organic compound must contain a hydrogen-carbon bond) . This seems not to be the case according to the definition of of organic  compound found on Wikipedia itself. According to the definition hereafter, fluoromethylidyne is well an organic compound and will give rise to organic compounds in its reactions.


 * "An organic compound is any member of a large class of gaseous, liquid, or solid chemical compounds whose molecules contain carbon. For historical reasons discussed below, a few types of carbon-containing compounds such as carbides, carbonates, simple oxides of carbon and cyanides, as well as the allotropes of carbon such as diamond and graphite, are considered inorganic. The distinction between "organic" and "inorganic" carbon compounds, while "useful in organizing the vast subject of chemistry... is somewhat arbitrary".

So, fluoromethylidyne could be just the proof of this exception. Shinkolobwe (talk) 21:12, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Definition of inorganic compound
Excerpt from inorganic compound on Wikipedia:


 * "Many compounds that contain carbon are considered inorganic; for example, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, carbonates, cyanides, cyanates, carbides, and thyocyanates. In general, however, the workers in these areas are not concerned about strict definitions."

This list does not contains fluoromethylidyne. The last sentence also pleades for some relativism. Shinkolobwe (talk) 21:09, 23 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Conceded. --Plasmic Physics (talk) 04:01, 24 January 2011 (UTC)