Talk:Oxocarbon
Latest comment: 9 years ago by Burzuchius in topic Organic or inorganic?
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Dioxetanedione
editDioxetanedione (C2O4) needs to be added to the list of oxocarbons.Joeylawn (talk) 03:27, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
- Done. Thanks for the tip! --Jorge Stolfi (talk) 07:07, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
Organic or inorganic?
editThe opening sentence reads, an oxocarbon is an inorganic compound consisting only of oxygen and carbon. But mellitic anhydride and other esters/anhydrides of fully-substituted benzene seem perfectly organic to me. Besides, the usual and widely accepted definition of an organic compound is that it contains at least one C-H and/or C-C bond. Zhieaanm (talk) 09:29, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
- I have reverted to the original "chemical compound". It really does not matter whether these compounds should be considered inorganic or organic: it is only a matter of convention. Burzuchius (talk) 11:55, 9 February 2015 (UTC)