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Organic Chemistry – Some Basic Principles and Techniques
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How do you write the IUPAC name of a given organic compound?

Answer

A complete IUPAC name of an organic compound may be represented as:
Prefix + Word root + Primary suffix + Secondary suffix
For example, the complete IUPAC name of the compound


(i) Prefix: Bromo
(ii) Word root: Pent
(iii) Primary suffix: yne
(iv) Secondary suffix: oic acid
∴   Complete name of the compound is 4- Bromopent-2 yne-1-oic acid.
Here 4, 2 and 1 represent the positions of prefix, primary suffix and of the secondary suffix in the carbon atom chain.

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What does IUPAC stand for?

What system of nomenclature is accepted universally?

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Which characteristic is common to different isomers of a compound?

 

Name three alkanes which do not show chain isomerism.

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Name the four main types of structural isomerism.