That's a Wrap

Finally, the first semester has come to an end. Exams however, are looming. Big deal. I just want to impart some knowledge from what I learnt in Chem 101.

According to Prof Trevor Kitson, this, my friends, is a pyrrole molecule:

It's name has a "pyr" prefix because all nitrogen containing substituents are pyretic in nature. Simple enough right?

Next, is the phosphole molecule:

You can probably guess that it has the "phos" prefix because the nitrogen has been replaced with a phosphate in the carbon ring.

One brilliant Australian scientist managed to synthesize an entirely new molecule by substituting phosphate with arsenic.

This is the molecule:
Only one can wonder what this molecule would soon be called.


Answer: arsole

(name certified by IUPAC)

If you think it ends there, think again.

When arsole is fused with a benzene ring, it becomes benzarsole.

So if it fuses with 3 benzene rings, it's called tribenzarsole.

Even worse, if it fuses with 6 benzene rings...

sexibenzarsole

Enough said.