Take the 2-minute tour ×  I would like to denote a molecular ion
using the chemcompounds package. This would involve wrapping
part of a chemcompounds descriptor in square brackets, like so:
However, because the chemcompounds name argument is placed
between square brackets, trying to do this causes an error.  How
is it done?     This species is denoted \compound{c1}.  This
molecular ion is denoted \compound{c1c}.  %This molecular ion
breaks chemcompounds: \compound{c1bc}.   (I have commented out
the lines that break compilation)  share|improve this question
It is always best to compose a MWE that illustrates the problem
including the \documentclass and the appropriate packages so
that those trying to help don't have to recreate it. –  Peter
Grill Nov 8 '11 at 2:42  1 Answer 1  up vote 5 down vote
accepted  Normally, an extra pair of braces solves this kind of
problem:       enter image description here  If this was not the
case, while you provide a proper MWE with chemcompounds, I would
suggest you to use th