[MK23]

I accidently posted this in the general forum.... sorry.

Greetings, I was performorming an aldol condensation in Organic Lab, through IR and HNMR I have determined that my starting materials were p-tolualdehyde and Acetone.  I am fairly certain I have the proper structure but I am having some difficulty with the nomenclature, in other words I can't seem to name it(IUPAC rules). Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanx.

[english]

Draw your structure, then use the program's built-in tools menu to generate the compound's name.

http://www.acdlabs.com/download/

[MK23]

My laptop is punking out on me...

It is essentially a dibenzylacetone with an extra methyl group in the para position of each ring.

[english]

I don't know if I got this right...but this is what I'm thinking.

[MK23]

bingo

[english]

bingo

Well, my intuition tells me that you, nor I, no how the hell to name this thing given our current chemical knowledge.   

So when your laptop begins to work properly again, download the freeware here, draw the compound, go to

Tools ----> Generate Name for Structure.

The program should be able to name any compound so long as it's 50 atoms or less.  That is, it will give you the name for this compound.  It involves a bit of nomenclature I'm not currently familiar with.

[Custos]

The longest alkyl chain is 5 so it's a pentane.
It has a ketone at carbon 3 so it's a pentan-3-one.
It has double bonds starting at carbon 1 and 4 so it's a pentan-1,4-diene-3-one.
It has 4-methylphenyl substituents at carbons 1 and 5 so it's:
1,5-bis(4-methylphenyl)pentan-1,4-diene-3-one.
If you want to get fancy, and you're sure the stereochemisty of the Double bonds are trans the name would be:
(1E,4E)-1,5-bis(4-methylphenyl)pentan-1,4-diene-3-one