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Chemistry Forums for Students => Organic Chemistry Forum => Topic started by: Jill on April 04, 2004, 08:19:38 PM

Title: does nonene have isomers?
Post by: Jill on April 04, 2004, 08:19:38 PM

Does 2 nonene have cis and trans isomers?  If they do or not why?


Edit: edited title for better indexing. Mitch

Title: Re:I'm not sure
Post by: Mitch on April 04, 2004, 08:21:53 PM

Of course it does. Why wouldn't you expect it not to have cis or trans isomers?

Title: Re:I'm not sure
Post by: Jill on April 04, 2004, 08:28:16 PM

Why does it have both then.  I didn't know it could have both?

Title: Re:I'm not sure
Post by: Mitch on April 04, 2004, 10:58:39 PM

If they don't specify you have to assume it has both isomers.

Title: Re:I'm not sure
Post by: AWK on April 05, 2004, 10:11:23 AM

Hope this clear the problem.2-nonene is a general name for both isomers. Each isomer has its own name; ie trans-2-nonene or
cis-2-nonene