Organic Chemistry: IUPAC Nomenclature
Master IUPAC naming rules for organic compounds — alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, and substituted compounds.
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What is the IUPAC name for the simplest carboxylic acid with the formula HCOOH?
Methanoic acid
What is the common name for the compound propan-2-one?
Acetone
In IUPAC nomenclature, what prefix is used to indicate the presence of four identical substituents?
Tetra-
What is the common name for ethanoic acid?
Acetic acid
When naming an alkane, how is the parent chain defined?
The longest continuous carbon chain.
What is the IUPAC name for the two-carbon aldehyde CH3CHO?
Ethanal
When numbering a carbon chain with both a methyl and an ethyl group at equivalent positions from either end, which group gets the lower number?
The ethyl group
How are multiple double bonds indicated in the suffix of an alkene name?
By using suffixes like -adiene, -atriene, etc.
In a cyclic hydrocarbon with only one substituent, is a locant number required in the name?
No, because the substituent is assumed to be at position 1.
What is the IUPAC name for a substituent with the formula -CH(CH3)2?
Isopropyl (or 1-methylethyl)
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