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Offline Kaizer

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Molecular Geometry
« on: December 10, 2010, 09:43:18 PM »
C2HClBrF

Draw as many Lewis structures for C2HClBrF as you can. How many isomer possibilities are there? You will encounter a problem assigning cis and trans designations to these isomers. What is that problem? Can you invent a way of naming these isomers that gets around this short-coming of the cis and trans way of naming double bond isomers? Describe this method.

^This chem question is killing me. I'd much appreciate it if someone could help me out. Thanks!

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Re: Molecular Geometry
« Reply #1 on: December 11, 2010, 04:37:47 AM »
First you should draw out the molecule or it's skeleton to get an idea of what you're dealing with. From the formula HC2BrClF we can determine it's an ethene with three halogen substitutions. It can't be named using cis/trans system without ambiguity so you'll have to use E/Z naming system. These follow CIP priority for naming E or Z.

Try naming these two with E/Z notation.

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