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Offline John623

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hydroxyethene or ethenol? naming rules
« on: February 23, 2015, 04:11:35 AM »
I remember reading that if you have an "ene" ending it takes priority over an "ol" ending and you must replace the "ol" with a hydroxy prefix because you can't have 2 endings/suffixes mixed together. I believe that enes have an alkenyl prefix.

However, when I search the internet for ethenol I get 97,700 results - which is 2 endings mixed together
When I search the internet for hydroxyethene I get 2,050 results
When I search the internet for alkenylethenol I get 0 results

So which one would be correct? I would think hydroxyethene, but ethenol brings up more results.

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Re: hydroxyethene or ethenol? naming rules
« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2015, 07:06:24 AM »
The compound is called Enol or alkenol, so Ethenol would be ok and also the other namings should be fine. I dont know if IUPAC has a special law for it.

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When I search the internet for alkenylethenol I get 0 results

I think this is not existing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enol


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