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Why not ditch this article. It's horrible and wrong in most places. I've never heard of the "-epoxy" prefix, (usually "-epoxide" suffix) which is notated in the article as a suffix anyway. Also, no carbocation is generated in basic cleavage reactions.
Organic chemist to the rescue. I'll keep adding to this page till the basic epoxide chemistry is covered. Don't hesitate to correct my errors.
Can I suggest a diagram at the beginning of an epoxy group? I'm not a chemist, and it took me a good minute of parsing the start of the article to work out that:
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C
was the characteristic bit of an epoxy. (If I understood it correctly). 129.94.6.30 05:21, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
The article is obviously the result of an homework assignment for a synthesis class which forced a large number of spacious drawings and a historical review of the kinds of narrowly focused epoxidations studied in universities. There is virtually no mention of the important stuff - nothing on ethylene and propylene oxides, which dominate the market, no real world applications involving the precursors to epoxy resins, no biology, reactions is thin. Choices
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Smokefoot (
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13:16, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
This article could do with a sentence saying why the concatenation of these bits of words, epo- and -oxy- has been made, and I can't insert it because I don't know. But it does seem to me an unacceptable omission for an encyclopedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nick Barnett ( talk • contribs) 18:22, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
== Safety == Epoxides are alkylating agents, making many of them highly toxic. [1]
References
I have never seen epoxies used as alkylating agents. Are we sure this is correct? GRALISTAIR ( talk) 21:33, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
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Why not ditch this article. It's horrible and wrong in most places. I've never heard of the "-epoxy" prefix, (usually "-epoxide" suffix) which is notated in the article as a suffix anyway. Also, no carbocation is generated in basic cleavage reactions.
Organic chemist to the rescue. I'll keep adding to this page till the basic epoxide chemistry is covered. Don't hesitate to correct my errors.
Can I suggest a diagram at the beginning of an epoxy group? I'm not a chemist, and it took me a good minute of parsing the start of the article to work out that:
0 - C
| /
C
was the characteristic bit of an epoxy. (If I understood it correctly). 129.94.6.30 05:21, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
The article is obviously the result of an homework assignment for a synthesis class which forced a large number of spacious drawings and a historical review of the kinds of narrowly focused epoxidations studied in universities. There is virtually no mention of the important stuff - nothing on ethylene and propylene oxides, which dominate the market, no real world applications involving the precursors to epoxy resins, no biology, reactions is thin. Choices
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Smokefoot (
talk)
13:16, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
This article could do with a sentence saying why the concatenation of these bits of words, epo- and -oxy- has been made, and I can't insert it because I don't know. But it does seem to me an unacceptable omission for an encyclopedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nick Barnett ( talk • contribs) 18:22, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
== Safety == Epoxides are alkylating agents, making many of them highly toxic. [1]
References
I have never seen epoxies used as alkylating agents. Are we sure this is correct? GRALISTAIR ( talk) 21:33, 17 February 2022 (UTC)