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Ch.21 - Organic Chemistry

Chapter 21, Problem 42c

Name each alkane. c.

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Hi everyone here we have a question asking which of the following is the correct name for the al cane. So first we want to number our longest carbon chain. So we have 567 and seven's prefixes Hepcat and it's an al cane. So so far we have the base name hep Tane. And now we need to name our groups. So if we look at carbon three, we have two methods which is one carbon each. So carbon three, Carbon three and then on four we also have a missile. And if we look at carbon for again, we see that we have an ethyl which consists of two carbons. So now if we put this all together, we want to put our groups in alphabetical order. So ethel will become will come before me ethel. So we'll have four ethel 3, 3, 4 and there's three of them. So that's going to be try try methanol and then our base name Hep Tain. So now we can look at our answers. 12 to 3 tetra methyl three proposal contain that is incorrect. B four ethyl 334 try metal Hep Tain. That is correct. So our answer is beat. Thank you for watching. Bye.