Talk:Interpnictogen

Also called "interpentels" (pentel being an older name for a group 15 element); this term is used in Holleman & Wiberg. Double sharp (talk) 06:51, 12 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

monophosphorus mononitride

Does this stuff have to be named so exactly? Isn't "phosphorus mononitride" sufficient? One "mono" is enough to distinguish PN from P₃N₅. And if there are other "mononitrides" like P₂N, P₃N or so, they could still be distinguished from PN by the syllables "di-", "tri-" etc. previous to "phosphorus".

I ask because in other compound names the syllable "mono" is often left out. E.g. CO is also named carbon monoxide but not monocarbon monoxide. --79.243.255.221 (talk) 18:53, 6 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The webpage used to cite PN is actually for P_xN_y. In fact I think this article is really full of original research – I cannot find a single book that mentions these chemicals as a group, unlike for the interchalcogens and interhalogens. So I redirected the article to pnictogen. Double sharp (talk) 08:46, 7 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately, the article "pnictogen" doesn't mention the existence of interpnictogens at all (as far as I saw when I browsed through the article). But at least one of them, P₃N₅, is really known. Or is it the name "interpnictogen" that is so uncommon that it isn't worth being cited? --79.243.245.16 (talk) 14:43, 25 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It's the name – while it's a plausible coinage, I have honestly never seen it everywhere. I have seen interpentels (Holleman and Wiberg), but even they just mention it as a name without mentioning their properties – which makes me suspect that unlike the interchalcogens and interhalogens, they are not a largely homogeneous grouping and therefore there isn't really any good basis to discuss them together in an article. They could be better covered individually. Currently, most of them aren't, and they should be: but I think the bundling of those dissimilar compounds that we did here was not a good idea.

Our article on triphosphorus pentanitride still exists, and can be accessed from {{Phosphorus compounds}}, which appears (or should appear) at the bottom of every article on a phosphorus compound. Double sharp (talk) 15:16, 25 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]