Talk:Vecuronium bromide

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In popular culture

Hi,

I'd just like to add one thing to the page: a new bullet in "Uses in Popular Culture". Dr. House of the television show House, M.D. also used 200mg of Vecuronium to paralyze a patient in the episode "Autopsy" in Season 2.

That's just trivia and shouldn't be added to the article. -- Ed (Edgar181) 12:46, 11 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Invalid structural formula

Structural formula given isn't valid. The aminic piperidyl nitrogen atome on position 2- of the steroid skeleton is positively charged, however only 3-bond; it should be quarterized with a proton (H⁺). I'll change the structural formula in few days.--84.163.125.76 00:13, 3 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have corrected the structure. --Ed (Edgar181) 13:02, 3 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you.--84.163.97.230 16:43, 4 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

where's the Br?

There's no Br in the chemical description or diagram, so why is the word bromide in the title? Feel free to mock my ignorance. —Tamfang (talk) 07:39, 17 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Exactly. There is no bromine atom in the diagram, and the full chemical name does not appear to describe a bromide either.

99.238.74.216 (talk) 17:18, 24 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I emailed the uploader of the image. It should be updated before too long. ChemNerd (talk) 22:07, 24 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Br has appeared.

But what is the nature of the bonding? It's some ionic thing?

That position is fixed? The angles are fixed?

99.238.74.216 (talk) 13:51, 26 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It is an ionic salt. In a standard two-dimensional depiction of an ionic salt, the positions/angles of individual ions relative to each other is neither fixed nor particularly relevant. ChemNerd (talk) 20:46, 26 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The name itself

What does the odd name mean?
The suffix "-ium" typically describes a metallic element. That is not the case here.
99.238.74.216 (talk) 17:21, 24 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The "ium" suffix is derived from "ammonium" and indicates a positive charge on a nitrogen atom (the N⁺ near the right side of the diagram). ChemNerd (talk) 20:49, 26 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. And begging the question why ammonium was named thusly.

If "vecuron" has a Latin or Greek root, I personally am not seeing it.

This Latin dictionary on my desk has nothing similar.

99.238.74.216 (talk) 15:42, 1 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The "cur" morpheme is from "curare", which word is derived from a Native American language, perhaps the Macushi language. Spacepotato (talk) 22:36, 14 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]