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Title: What is the name of this compound?
Post by: bimmer3 on December 03, 2013, 12:32:59 PM

See attached, thanks

Title: Re: What is the name of this compound?
Post by: discodermolide on December 03, 2013, 12:35:09 PM

What have you come up with so far?

Title: Re: What is the name of this compound?
Post by: Archer on December 03, 2013, 01:42:36 PM

This radical is likely to cause you some issues



 Can you name it? What other functional groups are present?

Title: Re: What is the name of this compound?
Post by: elCHUPP on December 04, 2013, 08:17:55 PM

This will definitely help: (https://www.chemicalforums.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FHh0EP7w.png&hash=0a5983cee27343fa138b1d7b7c26767d7eb513b6)

I'm throwing out a guess here:

2-(2-phenylmethylidine)-1-propoxylcyclopentan-1-ol

Title: Re: What is the name of this compound?
Post by: discodermolide on December 04, 2013, 08:28:21 PM

A phenyl methyl group is usually referred to as  benzyl.

Title: Re: What is the name of this compound?
Post by: organicdave on December 05, 2013, 06:45:40 PM

(E)-2-benzylidene-1-propoxycyclopentanol

This is a benzylidene:
(https://www.chemicalforums.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2F9%2F97%2FStyrene.png&hash=b8f60df43cdb54abd2db9dedf5dfae3e05fb701f)