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Offline joshuajava

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Engineering organic chemsitry
« on: July 15, 2013, 07:12:55 PM »
Hi, can someone tell me the best way to go about doing this question?

Draw structural formulae showing all the atoms of both of the following:
2,3-dimethylpentanal, 4-methyl-chlorobenzene                  

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Re: Engineering organic chemsitry
« Reply #1 on: July 15, 2013, 09:03:32 PM »
Hi, can someone tell me the best way to go about doing this question?


Pen and paper.

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Re: Engineering organic chemsitry
« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2013, 09:36:44 PM »
Actually, you're able to do the diagrams on this site. What was the point of your post?

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Re: Engineering organic chemsitry
« Reply #3 on: July 15, 2013, 09:54:34 PM »
Actually, you're able to do the diagrams on this site.

Great. So, draw us a diagram of what you think these molecules look like.

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Re: Engineering organic chemsitry
« Reply #4 on: July 15, 2013, 11:51:59 PM »
Hi curiouscat, I'm just learning chemistry (I started about 20 minutes ago, but I googled some things and I find it very interesting) I tried constructing the second formula mentioned by the original poster and I came up with this http://imgur.com/9rO3Uyg. Am I correct in saying that this is right? My reasoning is that it's a benzene molecule, with chlorine attached onto it. Also, because of the "Methyl" part, wikipedia tells me that a CH3 molecule is needed in the 4th (stated in the text formula) position.

Thanks in advance!

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Re: Engineering organic chemsitry
« Reply #5 on: July 16, 2013, 12:18:00 AM »
Hi curiouscat, I'm just learning chemistry (I started about 20 minutes ago, but I googled some things and I find it very interesting) I tried constructing the second formula mentioned by the original poster and I came up with this http://imgur.com/9rO3Uyg. Am I correct in saying that this is right?


Looks right to me. c1([Cl])ccc(C)cc1

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Re: Engineering organic chemsitry
« Reply #6 on: July 16, 2013, 09:35:25 AM »
Thanks buddy :) 

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