Date	Severity	Status	Feedback
Dec 12 2023 7:07PM	Normal	Acknowledged	The image of "carbon" is actually methane (also CH4) rather than actual carbon (C) or carbon black. This is a bug in the structure renderer and is fixed in the beta version of the site: https://beta.chemspider.com/Chemical-Structure.4575370.html
May 7 2021 12:34PM	Normal	Acknowledged	The structure shown for atomic carbon (Chemspider ID 4575370) looks like methane (CH4) despite having the correct InChI and key for the monatomic species. See CAS 7440-44-0 and Wikipedia for [[atomic carbon]]. This is probably a rendering issue in the software. I'm not sure what should be in the names section as species such as graphite and diamond have separate CAS numbers and Wikipedia articles. This is indeed a rendering problem which we have not yet been able to fix. Within ChemSpider, we cannot distinguish between allotropes like graphite and diamond. As such, they're all rolled onto one record.
Nov 17 2019 6:15PM	Extreme	Acknowledged	The picture for "graphite" (AKA "carbon") is actually of methane! The record is correct, however I'd recommend a less misleading picture. Thanks, this is a bug in the structure display which we are looking to fix.
Jul 17 2019 6:58AM	Normal	Acknowledged	In the image viewer for 'carbon', methane is shown. This is incorrect. Thanks, this is a bug in the structure display which we are looking to fix.
Aug 31 2018 4:18PM	Normal	Acknowledged	Is the issue with this molecular display similar to my previous question on N? In that the issue is caused by a bug in the image display. Unfortunately yes.
Oct 11 2015 10:00PM	High	Acknowledged	For investigators working with another chemically reactive but indeterminate form of carbon, graphene, this database spider is useless. Could you please add any references on graphene and fullerenes to this ASAP? This should include single, double and multiple layered graphene, graphite, "bucky bags", carbon nanotubes, and fullerene-based derivative and cage-type structures. I argue that most of today's "organie" chemicals composed of carbon and other elements are not really derived from living or organ-related sources, so these compounds are virtually indistinguishable from traditional organic compounds as taught in organic chemistry curricula. And it is not so much the presence of other elements in a molecule as it is the carbon atoms forming it's skeleton. ChemSpider is designed to handle small molecules with defined structures, so minerals or structures which may vary in size cannot be stored in our database. This is a technological limitation, so unfortunately we will not be able to create a record for graphene or for nanotubes which may vary in size.. We do have records for the C60 and C70 fullerenes, however: http://www.chemspider.com/Chemical-Structure.110185.html http://www.chemspider.com/Chemical-Structure.17288599.html
Sep 4 2014 9:25AM	Normal	Acknowledged	The structure for carbon shows up as methane. Thanks - we're looking into it.