Hello, I don't think I was bad at chemistry; but unfortunatly, I can't remeber now the difference between an N- compound or reaction and an O- one. What do N- and O- mean? and are there other ones? Many thanks,
n means normal o means ortho. there are two more. m and p. m for meta, p for para. these designations deal with rings such as benzene. they denote the positions of the radicals attached. a benzene ring is numbered with 1 at the top and going around clockwise. in this particular case the acylation radical is attached to the 1 position. the glcosylation is attach to the ortho position. edit: http://members.aol.com/logan20/disub.html
