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Ch.21 - Organic Chemistry

Chapter 21, Problem 75c

Name each aldehyde or ketone. c.

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Hey everyone, we're asked to provide the name of the following al to hide or ketone. Looking at our structure, we can see that we have the structure of our C. O. H. R. Being RL keel group and C O. H. Being our Aldo hide group. So this means we have an AL to hide. So our suffix is going to be a L. Now let's go ahead and look for our parent chain and our parent chain is going to be our longest carbon chain. So counting it out, we have 123456 and seven. So our longest carbon chain is going to be a seven carbon chain. So that gives us the prefix of hep 47. Now if we went other directions, like let's say we went 123 and four that stops us at four carbons so that can't be our parent chain. Similarly if we went the other way and went 12345 and six that gives us only six carbons. So that's also not our answer. So our longest chain is going to be seven carbons. Now let's go ahead and look at our substitute Wint's looking at carbon number three, we can see that we have one methyl group. So at our third carbon we have a metal. Next looking at carbon # four, we can see that we have two carbon groups. So that means we have an ethyl group. Now when we name this we're going to name it in alphabetical order. So we have four ethyl Followed by three methods. And lastly our have to now and our parent chain, which is our AL to hide, is always going to be our ending. Now. I hope that made sense and let us know if you have any questions.