Tag: substituents

  • Further Nomenclature Rules

    Further Nomenclature Rules

    Now that we’ve covered basic substituents and alkane, alkene, and alkyne families in the previous posts, we will put it all together. Further functional families, such as ethers, carboxylic acids, amides and more, will be discussed in their own blog post. I haven’t introduced them yet to keep it simple, but they will mostly follow…

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  • IUPAC Nomenclature of  Organic Substituents (cyclo, sec-, iso-, tert-, hydroxy, phenyl, etc)

    IUPAC Nomenclature of Organic Substituents (cyclo, sec-, iso-, tert-, hydroxy, phenyl, etc)

    In today’s lesson, we are going to discuss naming different types of substituents on organic compounds, including both their name and drawing. Note that all substituents are highlighted in blue in the pictures below. Sometimes, some of these groups are not substituents, but rather they are the main functional family – it depends what other…

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