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Chemistry Forums for Students => Undergraduate General Chemistry Forum => Topic started by: horseb0x on January 25, 2011, 07:04:28 AM

Title: How to name bicyclic hydrocarbons
Post by: horseb0x on January 25, 2011, 07:04:28 AM

In the past exam papers from my class questions like this keep coming up
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I missed the lecture that covered this kinda stuff. How do you name weird bycyclic hydrocarbons like this?

Title: Re: How to name bicyclic hydrocarbons
Post by: Schrödinger on January 25, 2011, 07:43:07 AM

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycloalkane for nomenclature of bicyclic compounds
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro_compound for nomenclature of spiro compounds

Please search the web before you post questions here. That way, you get used to solving problems by yourself :):)