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Q.Write the IUPAC name of CH3CH(Cl)CH2CH3\text{CH}_3\text{CH}(\text{Cl})\text{CH}_2\text{CH}_3, and classify it as a primary, secondary or tertiary haloalkane.

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The parent chain is the four-carbon butane skeleton. Numbering from the end nearer the chlorine places it on C2 (numbering from the other end would place it on C3, a higher locant), so the lowest-locant rule fixes the name as 2-chlorobutane. The chlorine-bearing carbon, C2, is attached to two other carbons (C1 and C3), so by definition it is a secondary (2∘2^\circ) carbon, making this a secondary haloalkane.

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The compound is 2-chlorobutane, a secondary (2∘2^\circ) haloalkane.

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