Mercury(I) salts return empirical rather than molecular formulas

Open jsonnenb opened this issue 4 years ago • 2 comments

Mercury(I) chloride is Hg2Cl2 but opsin returns HgCl. This is the case for mercury(I) cyanide, mercury(I) iodide, mercury(I) fluoride, mercury(I) thiocyanate, etc.

Mar 26 '21 17:03 jsonnenb

Thanks for pointing this out, I'm just thinking about the best way of implementing this. I can find one counterexample, mercury(I) hydride, which more typically is HgH, but indeed the vast the majority of mercury(I) compounds do seem to contain dimeric mercury. Are you aware of any other counterexamples?

Apr 02 '21 00:04 dan2097

I am not aware of any other counter examples but will continue looking and report back if I find any.

Apr 27 '21 02:04 jsonnenb