Talk:EuFOD

Question about the "D" in "EuFOD"

Please forgive my ignorance, ... especially if the answer to this question was supposed to be obvious.

I am having trouble figuring out where the "D" comes from, in the name "EuFOD".

Sometimes a compound that contains Deuterium ("²H") will have a "D" in its formula (for "Deuterium") ... (instead of an "H" for Hydrogen) ... if it is considered important which isotope of Hydrogen is present in the molecule.)

I guess that ... this compound -- ("EuFOD") -- does not contain any ["Deuterium"]. (right?) I do not see "Deuterium" mentioned in this article.

I did notice that the footnote for [an article by] "Wenzel, T.J." and "Ciak, J.M." (which is now footnote number "2") ... dates all the way back to the OLDEST version of this article (when it was the only footnote in this article). The name of that article (by Wenzel and Ciak) in that footnote, does seem to contain [only] a name -- perhaps an IUPAC name?, or something like that? -- that includes two copies of the letter d.

That IUPAC name (or whatever it is), goes:

• "Europium, tris(6,6,7,7,8,8,8-heptafluoro-2,2-dimethyl-3,5-octanedianato)".

The "d" in "EuFOD" probably does not come from the "d" in "dimethyl") ... (right?)

The other "d" in that title) is part of "dianato" ... which is part of "octanedianato".

Could the "d" in "EuFOD" come from there? (from the "d" in "octanedianato"?)

Another guess: The first sentence of the article about Coordinate covalent bond starts out:

• "A coordinate covalent bond,^[1] also known as a dative bond^[2], dipolar bond,^[3] or [...]".

Could the "d" in "EuFOD" come from one of those? (from the "d" in "dative" or the "d" in "dipolar"?)

Thanks for your patience. Any advice would be appreciated. --Mike Schwartz (talk) 15:44, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

I assumed it was "fluorooctandion...". That way the f...o...d are in order of the systematic name. The original paper on this reagent included the "fod" name (doi:10.1021/ja00735a049). DMacks (talk) 16:16, 29 September 2020 (UTC)