Monday, December 11, 2023

IUPAC Name of a hypothetical Phytotoxin form James Bond movie, Moonraker

Nerve agent X-52, presumably an organophosphate ester


SYSTEMATICS of IUPAC NOMENCLATURE

The following steps should be considered for better clarity. While the names are written with prefix first - all the subsequent prefixes are successively appended onto the left while writing the name.

A. The ring in red is the principal C chain appearing as 3-cyclopentyl propanoate

B. Purple ring is the alkyl part of ester - which would be a prefix to the ester - a cyclopent-1-en-1-yl

C. There are two substituents further present on this chain: a 4-acetyl (purple) and a 5-(1-methyl-tetradecahydro-anthracen-1-yl (green)

D. A further substituent is present with four carbons (pink) - bearing the name but-3-en-1-yl

E. The pink part has further substitutions:

    1-deuteromercapto for the -SD group (deuterates thiol group)

    4,4,4-trichloro

    1-phenyl

    2-thio...(with further substitutions of...{shown in blue}):

            Phosphoranyl (pentavalent P; with further substitutions of...):

                    triethoxy

                    phenoxy ( with 4-nitro)