Hi Alison,

I have never used PubChem - I tend to use ChEBI - but reading around it seems a 
highly respected standard and I can find no valid argument against its use.

Cheers, Roy.


I have now retired but will continue to be active through an Emeritus 
Fellowship using this e-mail address.

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From: CF-metadata <cf-metadata-boun...@cgd.ucar.edu> on behalf of Alison 
Pamment - UKRI STFC <alison.pamm...@stfc.ac.uk>
Sent: 17 April 2019 17:31
To: CF-metadata (cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu)
Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] New halocarbon standard name requests

Dear Dan, Roy and Jonathan,

Apologies for the delay in getting back to this discussion. I agree completely 
that the IUPAC names need to be accurate to facilitate searching of names and 
definitions. I'm in favour of getting rid of superfluous hyphens as Roy 
suggests e.g., 1,1,1-trichloro-ethane becomes 1,1,1-trichloroethane.

I used PubChem (https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/) to produce the following 
list of changes  to existing standard name definitions. Interestingly, this 
suggests we should remove hyphens but add brackets in some cases (hcfc22 for 
example) while others seem to include hyphens where we might not expect them, 
e.g. halon1211.
limonene: current definition '1-methyl-4-prop-1-en-2-yl-cyclohexene' will be 
corrected to '1-methyl-4-prop-1-en-2-ylcyclohexene'.
isoprene: current definition '2-methyl-buta-1,3-diene' will be corrected to 
'2-methylbuta-1,3-diene'.
hcfc22: current definition 'chloro-difluoro-methane' will be corrected to 
'chloro(difluoro)methane'.
hcc140a:  current definition '1,1,1-trichloro-ethane' will be corrected to 
'1,1,1-trichloroethane'.
halon2402:  current definition '1,2-dibromo-1,1,2,2-tetrafluoro-ethane' will be 
corrected to '1,2-dibromo-1,1,2,2-tetrafluoroethane'.
halon1301: current definition 'bromo-trifluoro-methane' will be corrected to 
'bromo(trifluoro)methane'.
halon1211: current definition 'bromo-chloro-difluoro-methane' will be corrected 
to 'bromo-chloro-difluoromethane'.
halon1202: current definition 'dibromo-difluoro-methane' will be corrected to 
'dibromo(difluoro)methane'.
cfc12: current definition 'dichloro-difluoro-methane' will be corrected to 
'dichloro(difluoro)methane'.
cfc115: current definition '1-chloro-1,1,2,2,2-pentafluoro-ethane' will be 
corrected to '1-chloro-1,1,2,2,2-pentafluoroethane'.
cfc114: current definition '1,2-dichloro-1,1,2,2-tetrafluoro-ethane' will be 
corrected to '1,2-dichloro-1,1,2,2-tetrafluoroethane'.
cfc113a: current definition '1,1,1-trichloro-2,2,2-trifluoro-ethane' will be 
corrected to '1,1,1-trichloro-2,2,2-trifluoroethane.'
cfc113: current definition '1,1,2-trichloro-1,2,2-trifluoro-ethane' will be 
corrected to '1,1,2-trichloro-1,2,2-trifluoroethane'.
cfc11: current definition 'trichloro-fluoro-methane' will be corrected to 
'trichloro(fluoro)methane'.

Do you agree with using PubChem as the reference source and are you happy to 
proceed with these changes?

Regarding the existing carbon tetrafluoride names, I will add pfc14 to the 
definitions as an alternative name. Similarly, methyl chloroform will be added 
to the definitions of existing hcc140a names as previously discussed. These 
changes will be added in the May standard names update.

Best wishes,
Alison

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-----Original Message-----
From: CF-metadata <cf-metadata-boun...@cgd.ucar.edu> On Behalf Of Jonathan 
Gregory
Sent: 09 April 2019 13:46
To: cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu
Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] New halocarbon standard name requests

Dear Roy

> You're right about hcc140a - I'd missed that because of the hyphen in the 
> IUPAC name trichloro-ethane. In my view the hyphen doesn't belong there (try 
> googling trichloro-ethane) if the IUPAC standard is strictly followed - 
> should be trichloroethane. If others agree maybe we should clean out the 
> hyphens from the definitions in a future update?

I agree that our chemical names in definitions should follow IUPAC.

Best wishes

Jonathan
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