Frankfurtin
Frankfurtin is a fictional organic compound commonly used in chemistry textbooks and teaching laboratories to illustrate principles of structure, reactivity, and spectroscopic analysis. It is named after the city of Frankfurt, chosen to emphasize the practice of assigning memorable, location-based names to hypothetical molecules.
In the hypothetical structure, Frankfurtin is described as a medium-sized polycyclic lactone bearing several oxygen heteroatoms,
There is no documentation of its isolation from natural sources or successful synthesis in real laboratories.
Educational uses include demonstrations of NMR interpretation, mass spectrometry fragmentation, stereochemistry, and retrosynthetic planning. Frankfurtin problems
Etymology and usage: the name reflects a convention in teaching materials to name fictional molecules after