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Offline horseb0x

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How to name bicyclic hydrocarbons
« on: January 25, 2011, 07:04:28 AM »
In the past exam papers from my class questions like this keep coming up



I missed the lecture that covered this kinda stuff. How do you name weird bycyclic hydrocarbons like this?

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Re: How to name bicyclic hydrocarbons
« Reply #1 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

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