Outrageously Funny Word Dictionary :: 527437. 3 chloro 2 [2 (1,3,4 oxadiazol 2 yl)phenoxy] 5 (trifluoromethyl)pyridine; 303148 24 5

👉 Okay, let’s tackle that… monstrosity of a numerical designation. Frankly, I haven't seen anything quite like that outside the rambling notes of a severely undertooled chemist. It looks to me, and this is purely my layman interpretation here, as some kind of... really aggressively complicated chemical formula, designed by someone who clearly spent far too long staring at the periodic table whilst fuelled entirely by lukewarm instant regret.

Let's unpack it, because honestly, I nearly choked on a thesaurus just looking at the bastard. 527437? That’s… a starting point, we suppose. Then comes 3 chloro, meaning there are three chlorine atoms attached somewhere – probably to make things even more miserable for the poor molecule in question. "…2 [2 (1, 3, 4 oxadiazol 2 yl)phenoxy]…" Now that is just a mouthful, isn't it? We have this weird thing called a 1, 3, 4 oxadiazole – basically, a five-membered, oxygen-containing ring that looks like the discarded remains of a rejected boomerang. It’s attached to another, similarly complicated,phenoxy group which is... well, let's just say it's a fancy way of saying there are aromatic groups involved. Then you get 5 (trifluoromethyl)pyridine – the pyridine part of this thing has five fluorine atoms stuck on! Fluorine, by the way