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Identifying Chemical/Pharmaceutical Structures: Tips and Tricks - tIA
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Renge Ishyo
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What are you asking for? The name of the structure?
nubee
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well, either the drug name (if you know it) or the chemical name (like C18 H21 N3 O5 etc)
I can't figure it out! Thanks
Renge Ishyo
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The chemical formula you have provided is correct for the number of C's, N's, and O's, but the number of H's is wrong (it is not 21). I don't want to give the name directly because this smells like a homework question...but I can confirm if you have the right formula when you get there.
nubee
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thks anyway, I've figured it out it's bambuterol! so the H=29??
Renge Ishyo
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Correct
nubee
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tbh got the answer on another forum, but how do you work out the no of hydrogens, got abit confused, it's been a while since i studied this stuff!
Renge Ishyo
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Make sure there are 4 bonds attached to each carbon. If there aren't 4 bonds attached to a carbon then "add hydrogens" to that carbon until it has 4 bonds.
nubee
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oh yeah, now it's all coming back to me. Thanks again for your help! :)