Talk:Vecuronium bromide

In popular culture
Hi,

I'd just like to add one thing to the page: a new bullet in "Uses in Popular Culture". Dr. House of the television show House, M.D. also used 200mg of Vecuronium to paralyze a patient in the episode "Autopsy" in Season 2.
 * That's just trivia and shouldn't be added to the article. -- Ed (Edgar181) 12:46, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

Invalid structural formula
Structural formula given isn't valid. The aminic piperidyl nitrogen atome on position 2- of the steroid skeleton is positively charged, however only 3-bond; it should be quarterized with a proton (H+). I'll change the structural formula in few days.--84.163.125.76 00:13, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I have corrected the structure. --Ed (Edgar181) 13:02, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you.--84.163.97.230 16:43, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

where's the Br?
There's no Br in the chemical description or diagram, so why is the word bromide in the title? Feel free to mock my ignorance. —Tamfang (talk) 07:39, 17 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Exactly. There is no bromine atom in the diagram, and the full chemical name does not appear to describe a bromide either.
 * 99.238.74.216 (talk) 17:18, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
 * I emailed the uploader of the image. It should be updated before too long.  ChemNerd (talk) 22:07, 24 May 2014 (UTC)


 * The Br has appeared.
 * But what is the nature of the bonding? It's some ionic thing?
 * That position is fixed? The angles are fixed?
 * 99.238.74.216 (talk) 13:51, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
 * It is an ionic salt. In a standard two-dimensional depiction of an ionic salt, the positions/angles of individual ions relative to each other is neither fixed nor particularly relevant.  ChemNerd (talk) 20:46, 26 May 2014 (UTC)

The name itself
What does the odd name mean?

The suffix "-ium" typically describes a metallic element. That is not the case here.

99.238.74.216 (talk) 17:21, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
 * The "ium" suffix is derived from "ammonium" and indicates a positive charge on a nitrogen atom (the N+ near the right side of the diagram). ChemNerd (talk) 20:49, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks. And begging the question why ammonium was named thusly.
 * If "vecuron" has a Latin or Greek root, I personally am not seeing it.
 * This Latin dictionary on my desk has nothing similar.
 * 99.238.74.216 (talk) 15:42, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
 * The "cur" morpheme is from "curare", which word is derived from a Native American language, perhaps the Macushi language. Spacepotato (talk) 22:36, 14 January 2015 (UTC)