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Riya Singh12thSample· 5d ago
Naming alcohols that also have a double bond, and which common name is catechol, resorcinol or hydroquinone?
I like the poetry of organic names less than I like actual poems, honestly. Naming alcohols is one more place where my marks slip away. Question one. For CH 2=CH-CH 2OH I wrote prop-1-en-3-ol because I thought the double
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Pooja Iyer12thSample· 1mo ago
Numbering a chain with halogen and alkyl groups, plus allylic vs benzylic vs vinylic halides, confuses me
Naming haloalkanes drove me slightly mad today and I need a clean rule set. Here is where I keep losing marks. 1. Numbering: when the chain has a halogen and a methyl, which one decides the direction of numbering? For CH
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Pooja Iyer12thSample· 2mo ago
Aldehyde and ketone in the same molecule: which gets the suffix, and what does 'oxo' mean?
I love how aldehydes and ketones have those neat names, until a molecule has two functional groups and I forget which one is the boss. Example: OHC-CH 2-CO-CH 3 . Is it 3-oxobutanal or 1-oxo... or something with "al-one"
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