Talk:Bromopentane

Editing

I went and did some obvious things but I'm not really following any of the article so if anyone wants to help then please feel free. Leefkrust22 (talk) 01:36, 27 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

More than mono- pentanes

Considering that the monobromopentanes section doesn't so much other than list all of the species under that category, is it worthwhile to catalogue every bromopentane in its own section on this page? E.g., tetrabromopentanes, hexabromopentanes, undecabromopentanes? (This is probably a poor idea and would result in increasingly long lists on every substituted alkane page with many compounds that have never been studied or synthesized, but I'd like to get a barometer on this one example and go from there.) Recon rabbit 02:34, 7 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In my opinion, lists of organic compound isomers (including redlinks to all possible isomers) should only be created once at least a couple of the isomers have articles, or if the group of compounds is notable enough to be worth discussing the properties of even if none of the isomers have articles of their own (e.g. chlorotoluene). I.e. the monobromopentane section is ok (since we have drafts coming for 2-bromopentane, 3-bromopentane, and 1-bromo-2,2-dimethylpropane). But there are currently no articles for any isomer of dibromopentane. If there are no articles then we shouldn't make a list that only contains redlinks. And if there are tons of possible isomers (I don't know how to calculate it but hexabromopentane would have dozens I think) then it might be best to limit it to just the isomers that have articles. Michael7604 (talk) 18:19, 7 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]