Pyridazine is the -diazine: an aromatic six-membered heterocyclic compound with adjacent ring nitrogen atoms and formula . The systematic ring position labels refer to connectivity, not to two added substituents on an unchanged hydrocarbon ring.[ref]
Tracing once around the ring gives the atom sequence . In pyrimidine, the shortest path between the two nitrogen atoms includes one carbon; in pyrazine, it includes two. Those are different constitutional isomers, although all three have the same elemental formula.[ref]
PubChem Compound database by National Center for Biotechnology Information. Compare CID9259, CID9260 and CID9261 structures
For a structure-reading exercise, start with a hexagon marked with two adjacent labels and rotate the entire page. It remains pyridazine. Move one label across a ring vertex instead, while keeping the ring connectivity interpretation, and the identity can become pyrimidine. The useful distinction is between moving a picture and changing a molecule.
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