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It's been a while and I hope everybody's been well. I'm not active anymore, but the recent renaming of the above two articles to terminal alkene and straight-chain terminal alkene caught my eye.
To this chemist, alpha-olefins, linear alpha-olefins, and polyalphaolefins are articles of commerce useful in making polyethylene, detergents, lubricants, and other materials. Terminal alkenes refer to the specific moiety in scientific literature. Not quite the same thing.
Could I please ask this community to review the change? Thanks! --Rifleman 82 (talk) 16:13, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
From WP:CHEMGROUP: "For groups of compounds named after a simple parent compound, articles about the group should be located at the plural of the parent compound name, e.g. hydrazines, silanes, boranes, diphosphenes." The title "Silane" can be ambiguous because it can either mean the compound Silane or the group of compounds called Silanes, so there has to be two articles with a singular and a plural title. There is also a difference between Phenolate and Phenolates, since "phenolate" refers to the anion, while "phenolates" refers to the group of compounds containing the "phenolate" anion. However in the case of cymene, there is no singular parent compound called "cymene", only three different compounds p-Cymene, o-Cymene, and m-Cymene, so there is no ambiguity with the title Cymene which can only refer to a group of compounds or a mixture of isomers, so I think Cymenes should be moved to Cymene. Same with moving Trimethylbenzenes, Diisopropylbenzenes, and Tetramethylbenzenes to their respective singular titles. In general when there is no possible ambiguity, articles about chemical groups are always singular titled, e.g. Chlorotoluene. Michael7604 (talk) 16:34, 19 October 2023 (UTC)