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Title: Naming an alkane
Post by: HatemTai1234 on February 03, 2017, 06:16:31 AM
Is it 3-ethyl 2-methyl butane or 2-ethyl 3-methylbutane  :-[
Title: Re: Naming an alkane
Post by: AWK on February 03, 2017, 06:45:54 AM
Find the longest chain.
Title: Re: Naming an alkane
Post by: AWK on February 03, 2017, 07:23:50 AM
Even SMILES prepared from your bad names - CC(C)C(CC)C or  CC(CC)C(C)C are correctly drawed by our Forum SMILES converter.
CC(C)C(CC)C   CC(CC)C(C)C
Title: Re: Naming an alkane
Post by: thetada on February 03, 2017, 11:32:38 AM
The prefixes should be in alphabetical order.
Title: Re: Naming an alkane
Post by: AWK on February 03, 2017, 12:54:11 PM
Quote from: thetada on February 03, 2017, 11:32:38 AM
The prefixes should be in alphabetical order.
There is only one type of substituent.
Title: Re: Naming an alkane
Post by: thetada on February 03, 2017, 12:55:57 PM
Of course, stupid of me. But where different substituents are required, they should be alphabetised.