Q.Write IUPAC names of the following compounds:
Pick the longest chain (or ring system) containing the principal feature, number for the lowest locants, then name substituents alphabetically. (a) 2-Methylbut-2-ene, (b) Pent-1-en-3-yne, (c) Buta-1,3-diene, (d) (But-3-en-1-yl)benzene, (e) 2-Methylphenol, (f) 5-(2-Methylpropyl)decane, (g) 4-Ethyldeca-1,5,8-triene.
(a)
The longest chain through the double bond is four carbons: . One of the two methyls on the doubly-bonded carbon is the fourth chain carbon; the other is a substituent. Numbering to give that substituent the lowest locant puts the methyl on C-2 and the double bond at C-2.
(a) 2-Methylbut-2-ene.
(b)
Five-carbon chain: double bond between C-1 and C-2, triple bond between C-3 and C-4. Numbering from the left gives the lowest locants (double bond at 1, triple bond at 3); "ene" is cited before "yne".
(b) Pent-1-en-3-yne.
(c)
The textbook draws this as a zig-zag skeletal chain of four carbons, with a double bond at each end and a single bond in the middle -- a conjugated diene. The parent chain is the whole 4-carbon chain; numbering from either end gives the double bonds the locants 1 and 3 (the two ends are equivalent by symmetry).
(c) Buta-1,3-diene.
(d)
The real figure shows a benzene ring attached to a chain (the ring was dropped in an earlier extraction pass, leaving only the chain fragment). With the ring as the parent (benzene) and the chain as a substituent, the substituent is a 4-carbon alkenyl group attached through C-1, with its own double bond at C-3: a but-3-en-1-yl group.
(d) (But-3-en-1-yl)benzene (equivalently, 4-phenylbut-1-ene).
(e) 2-methyl-substituted phenol
The real figure shows a benzene ring carrying a group and an group on two adjacent (ortho) ring carbons -- a substituted phenol, not a plain hydrocarbon (this specific part tests general ring-numbering rules, not just hydrocarbon naming). The principal characteristic group, , must get the lowest locant, so the ring is numbered with the carbon as C-1; the adjacent methyl then falls at C-2.
(e) 2-Methylphenol (common name: o-cresol).
(f)
The central CH bears three carbon chains. The longest chain runs from the pentyl end, through the central carbon, into the butyl chain: carbons (decane). Numbering from the butyl end places the branch point at C-5; the remaining branch, , is a 2-methylpropyl (isobutyl) group.
(f) 5-(2-Methylpropyl)decane (= 5-isobutyldecane).
(g)
The parent chain must contain the maximum number of double bonds, so it is the ten-carbon chain holding all three C=C bonds; the ethyl remains a substituent. Numbering from the right (the terminal ) gives the lower set of double-bond locants, against from the left, placing the ethyl on C-4.
(g) 4-Ethyldeca-1,5,8-triene.
Part (e)'s compound is a phenol, not a hydrocarbon -- it appears in this exercise purely to test the general ring-numbering rule (principal characteristic group gets the lowest locant), the same rule used throughout Unit 8's nomenclature. Don't let the unfamiliar functional group cause you to skip or mis-letter this part.
- 2-Methylbut-2-ene;
- Pent-1-en-3-yne;
- Buta-1,3-diene;
- (But-3-en-1-yl)benzene; (e) 2-Methylphenol; (f) 5-(2-Methylpropyl)decane; (g) 4-Ethyldeca-1,5,8-triene.
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