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IUPAC systematic names for the naturally occurring diatomic do not parse
Original report by Jason Sonnenberg (Bitbucket: jsonnenb, GitHub: jsonnenb).
For the seven elements (hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine) that have diatomic allotropes at STP, the IUPAC systematic names (dihydrogen, dioxygen, dinitrogen, difluorine, dichlorine, dibromine and diiodine) do not parse. The IUPAC details can be found in section IR-3.4.3 on page 49 of the Red Book.
Red Book: https://iupac.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Red_Book_2005.pdf
Original comment by Daniel Lowe (Bitbucket: dan2097, GitHub: dan2097).
Sure I can add them. The problem with this sort of inorganic nomenclature in general is that only the composition is really being indicated and hence the structure of the compound cannot necessarily be inferred...obviously for the diatomics no such issue exists.