Talk:Vinylogy

Portmanteau
Is this really a portmanteau of vinyl and analogous? I always thought it was homologous. I tried looking for a source, but found none (admittedly after a not very thorough search). The reason, I'm afraid, is that the rest of the world doesn't seem to share Wikipedia's fixation with portmanteaus. I didn't even know the word portmanteau until I started finding it numerous Wikipedia articles! --Itub (talk) 09:07, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

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Actually, the term vinylogous has become a theme in organic chemistry. Recently a group of out Spain published on an asymmetric vinylogous aldol addition, I've included the citation below. ~Paul

Asymmetric Vinylogous Aldol Reaction via H-Bond-Directing Dienamine Catalysis David Bastida, Yankai Liu, Xu Tian, Eduardo Escudero-Adán, and Paolo Melchiorre Organic Letters 2013 15 (1), 220-223 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.202.74.87 (talk) 20:56, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

Requested move

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The result of the proposal was moved. --BDD (talk) 19:00, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

Vinylogous → Vinylogy – WP article titles are usually nouns. See WP:NOUN. The proposed new title is mentioned in bold in the intro of the article so it is a recognised term. Heron (talk) 12:05, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

WikiProject: Chemistry
Hi, I'm not very experienced so I don't know whether I made a good job of this or not. I attempted to form a sort of lead paragraph.

A lot of this article was very repetitive, or questionable (is the C=C-OH of a vinylogous carboxylic acid truly an enol? One for the philosophers...). I tried to clean that up. Removed the bit about tautomerization, which seemed irrelevant to the main subject matter. The bit about allylic nucleophiles was nonsensical; best guess was allylic electrophiles were meant? An allylic nucleophile would not be conjugated.

Speaking of repetitiveness, the whole ascorbic acid example was a repeat (though a good example) of the vinylogous carboxylic acid in the intro. Perhaps it would be better to put those two bits together, or to use a different example in the intro, eg: a vinylogous amide. I'm just writing this to explain the big rehash I just did! FlowerFaerie087 (talk) 04:59, 14 February 2015 (UTC)