Talk:Peroxyacetyl nitrate

German wikipedia

There is a nice page about PAN in the German wikipedia. Should we adopt that?--RolfSander (talk) 06:16, 9 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Merger proposal

I propose merging peroxyacetyl nitrate and peroxyacyl nitrates. Our existing content is very limited and overlaps in scope, so merging may yield a beter page overall. Alternatively, as noted above, the de.wiki article appears extensive and translation could be a better choice, providing a editor with the right skills and be found to manage the changes.Project Osprey (talk) 10:22, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Good idea. Not many editors would even know the area, so you're on your own and probably should do it.--Smokefoot (talk) 22:22, 11 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I created this article and am willing to merge in content from the German version. PAN is quite an important species in geochemistry and atmospheric chemistry, see for example https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/peroxyacetylnitrate for a range of books discussing it. There are about 10,000 references to PAN in Google Scholar. I do find it useful to have separate articles on individual species and families of them. The former get a chembox, have concrete properties and serve as examples. The latter offer an overview of trends and are a good place to discuss the relationship to the rest of chemistry. --Ben (talk) 11:40, 13 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'm a German native speaker and an atmospheric chemist. I'm happy to translate the German Wikipedia article, if we want this. Especially for the non-atmospheric part of the article, it would be good if someone can double-check my translation.--RolfSander (talk) 11:45, 13 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds great! Very happy to double check. Ben (talk) 22:20, 15 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I have now translated and added the sections about Atmospheric chemistry and about Synthesis. For the toxicity, I just added a short paragraph. I don't feel comfortable working on the details of the medical aspects. There's still work to do...--RolfSander (talk) 08:00, 16 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I see another reason for not merging: The PAN page contains a chembox template with detailed information about the compound. Such a template wouldn't fit into a page that is about several compounds.--RolfSander (talk) 14:10, 16 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Closing with no merge given that the article improvements seem to make the merge proposal redundant (and noting that the discussion is stale). Klbrain (talk) 17:02, 15 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]