[jeffrey.struss]

Let me preface this and say this isn't a homework assignment or anything like that. I am trying to figure out the IUPAC name (or close to it) for this ligand and being an inorganic chemist am having a hard time coming up with the a proper or acceptable name for it. It is a C₂-ligand and is a derivative of pyrazine, which the author exclusively refers to as compound 2.

Here it is:


Hopefully, one of you all are a bit better than me at this. I never was good at organic nomenclature (especially when it came to ring systems).

[Honclbrif]

My verison of ChemDraw is choking on it. Best I can get is with one of the bornane subunits deleted:

1,11,11-trimethyl-3,6-diazatricyclo[6.2.1.0^2,7]undeca-2,4,6-triene

Maybe you could get away with calling it "dibornopyrazine"?

[Honclbrif]

finally found something that will name this beast:


Preferred IUPAC Name = 1,8,15,15,16,16-hexamethyl-3,10- diazapentacyclo[10.2.1.1^5,8.0^2,11.0^4,9]hexadeca- 2,4(9),10-triene