Talk:Ylide

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[edit] How do you pronounce Ylide?

Is it like "Why-lide" or "Elide" or "Illide"? Or is it something totally different?RSido 21:45, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

I think it's pronounced "EE-lide" because it's a combination of -yl (as in carbonyl), pronounced "ill", and -ide (as in chloride). I looked it up and couldn't find proof, but Ylangylang also begins with "EE". Shalom Hello 22:11, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Ylide is pronounced ILL-ide (long i); see the OED, if you can figure out their pronunciation guide. The Brits generally use ylid, which is pronounced with a shorter i, as ILL-id. 30 April, 2008. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.180.105.143 (talk) 00:29, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Functional group

In what way do you want an ylide to be an FG? ChristianB 22:21, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ylide?

Is it really spelled with an E by some in the U.S.? I'm a molecular biology Ph.D. student (American) and I've never seen it as anything except ylid. Not that this means much... --aciel (talk) 01:13, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

I've always seen it as ylide, and that's the way it's spelled in a couple of IUPAC glossaries.[1] --Itub (talk) 12:21, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pentavalent Nitrogen?

Why is there a nitrogen with 5 covalent bonds in one of the mechanisms? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.31.115.188 (talk) 01:33, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for spotting the error, the image is updated. V8rik (talk) 17:49, 20 February 2008 (UTC)