Talk:Trifluoronitrosomethane

Trifluoronitrosoethylene ?

There is one mention of 'trifluoronitrosoethylene' ("TFNE") being blue in color, and a citation. But this is problematic because 1) the article is about trifluoronitrosomethane ("TFNM", which is indeed a blue gas) and not about TFNE. TFNM is the C1 nitroso alkane and has no isomers, while TFNE is the C2 nitroso alkane and has 3 isomers. Totally different thing. 2) the source doesn't say that TFNE itself is blue. It does say that TFNE can be made to polymerize, and that the resulting polymer is blue. 3) mentioning TFNE where it is is kind of non sequitur since it is mentioned out of nowhere without being related to anything else. It would fit into a section about compounds related to TFNM though. 4) without checking the source the reader might be confused as to whether TFNM and TFNE are the same thing or not (they're not) because the article's mention is so brief and doesn't clearly say.

I'm inclined to edit the article and just make the whole be section about TFNM since that makes the most sense to me, and to leave TFNE to someone else. Senjoro Nie (talk) 20:06, 1 September 2022 (UTC)