I think phosphane just means an organic compound with phosphorous at the center? I'm not sure. Anyway, there's one element of the structure that is not implied in the name at all, at least not to my knowledge. Maybe it's what the phosphane means. But it's a phosphorus atom with three bonds - one to an oxygen which has a cyanoethyl attached (so, P-O-CH2-CH2-CN) and then two nitrogens, each with two isopropyl groups. Hee. It's the oxygen part that I don't see in the name, do you?
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Date: 2008-08-11 08:27 pm (UTC)HI! Geek. :)