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Selection of parent chain in a halogenated compound with double and triple bonds
We were asked to select the parent chain for naming the halogenated compound containing double and triple bonds:
My teacher told me that we choose the orange (1) one over the blue one (3) because as ...
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Why is methane not called carbon tetrahydride?
If aluminium hydride, $\ce{AlH3}$, is called "hydride" because it contains elemental hydrogen and sodium chloride, $\ce{NaCl}$, is called "chloride", and calcium carbide $\ce{CaC2}$...
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Numbering of carbon chain in 3-bromo-2-methylpropene
I have a specific confusion in numbering the carbon chain for 3-bromo-2-methylpropene.
I found two carbon chains of equivalent length (three atoms) and equivalent side chains (one atom).
For both ...
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What is the IUPAC name for this compound containing a phenyl group attached to it?
What is the IUPAC name for the compound $\ce{(CH3)3CCH2CH(Br)C6H5}$?
The answer I got myself was (1-Bromo-3,3-dimethylbutyl)benzene, but from looking online most sources list the name as 1-Bromo-3,3-...
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What is the IUPAC name of perchloroisobutane?
What is the IUPAC name of $\ce{(CCl3)3CCl}?$
The answer I got was 1,1,1,2,3,3,3-heptachloro-2-(trichloromethyl)propane. But when I looked up the question online, most sources say the answer is 2-(...
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(E)-2-bromo-1,4-difluoro-3-iodobut-2-ene or (E)-3-bromo-1,4-difluoro-2-iodobut-2-ene
I am struggling with naming this structure either (E)-2-bromo-1,4-difluoro-3-iodobut-2-ene or (E)-3-bromo-1,4-difluoro-2-iodobut-2-ene.
I am aiming at the question whether there is also a ...
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What is the difference between an Aryl Halide and a Vinyl Halide?
Are aryl halides a type of vinyl halide? From my knowledge, when a Halogen atom is directly bonded to a doubly bonded carbon atom it is a Vinyl halide. When we look at halogen atom directly bonded to ...
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What is the IUPAC name of this organic compound? [closed]
Variety is the spice of life. I have made an organic compound myself. Can you please tell me the name?
I thought that the correct answer is -
3,3-dibromo-2,4-dichloro-1,4-difluoro-2,4-diiodo-1-...
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What are the functional group names of halogenoalkanes?
The functional group name of other organic compounds is easily findable, but that of the halogenoalkanes (or haloalkanes) is not. This makes me wonder if such a name exists for the halogenoalkanes or ...
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How would the "-COOCl" functional group be named?
I had this question that has been bouncing around for over 2 years.
Basically, I imagined this molecule:
This molecule, as far as my former (and current) knowledge of nomenclature goes, couldn't be ...
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Chlorine Fluoride, why not Fluorine Chloride
Why is Chlorine Fluoride called "Chlorine Fluoride" rather than "Fluorine Chloride"? As I was taught in school that normally that when nonmetal combine with nonmetal then we write the compound with ...
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Alphabetization rule in case of consecutively placed substituents
This is the compound:
I am stuck on assigning the locants to the given halo substituents. We know that all halogens are of equal priority. So, using first point of difference, we get either an $\ce{I ...
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Order of citation of alkyl and halide prefixes in IUPAC names
I've been playing around with ChemDraw and found that it assigns the priorities of substituents in a way I wouldn't have expected, depending on the length of the alkyl substituent. I'm not a ...
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Assigning locants in haloalkanes and haloalkenes
In the first example below, if you add up the number of carbon which has a substituent, you will get 2 + 4 + 4 = 10. However, if you start from left to right, then you'd get 2 + 2 + 4 = 8. Why don't ...
