Talk:Toluene

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http://ntp-server.niehs.nih.gov/htdocs/8_RoC/RAC/TDI.html has a lot more information on toluene, and seems to be under the typical U.S. government copyright terms: not copyrighted unless it says otherwise. (A search on "copyright" shows 2 results, both of which contain an explicit notice of copyright.) I'm sending an email asking to make sure. --KQ

That page appears to be about toulene diisocyanate, not toulene. -- Simon J Kissane

Ah yes. C7H8, equally unpleasant but not the same thing. Thanks. --KQ

Well then copy it and make a new page.... -- mike dill

I'm waiting for a response about my copyright question.  :-) --KQ

[edit] toluene

toluene as rightly says is methyl benzene. the point the stucture of benzene has NO double bonds but a delocalised ring of electrons shown by the ring in the middle.

The Kekulé structure for benzene is universally accepted as a valid way of drawing an aromatic system- see any modern textbook of organic chemistry. Chemdraw has this form as the default. The "delocalised ring" presentation is valid and in some cases has advantages, but it is less used by organic chemists since it does not allow mechanisms to be drawn easily. Neither drawing fully represents the true structure. Walkerma 15:37, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

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The German Wikipedia has a very good article on this subject. It should probably be translated. →Iñgólemo← (talk) 00:47, 2004 Dec 9 (UTC)

• OK, it's on my 2DO list. Physchim62 21:15, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Testing new chembox

Some of you may be puzzled by the sudden frantic (& sometimes bizarre!) editing going on this page- we are testing out a new Chemical infobox as part of the Chemicals Wikiproject. This should be completed soon. Walkerma 15:37, 13 May 2005 (UTC)