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The common names for compounds/compound classes like this are usually just left to the person that discovers them. The standardized naming scheme is set by the IUPAC and the name that you get for any reasonably complicated molecule will be a mouthful.


A mouthful? You're not wrong ...

https://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/searchId.do?chebiId=132927

"8-[(1S,2R,3R,4S,6S,7S,8S,9S,12R)-pentacyclo[6.4.0.0^2,7.0^3,6.0^9,12]dodecan-4-yl]octanoic acid"

Not sure how I would format the ring closure notation (like 0^2,7 is meant to be superscript)




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