Topic: Naming an alkane (Read 2934 times)

HatemTai1234 · « **on:** February 03, 2017, 06:16:31 AM »

Is it 3-ethyl 2-methyl butane or 2-ethyl 3-methylbutane

AWK · « **Reply #1 on:** February 03, 2017, 06:45:54 AM »

Find the longest chain.

AWK · « **Reply #2 on:** February 03, 2017, 07:23:50 AM »

Even SMILES prepared from your bad names - CC(C)C(CC)C or CC(CC)C(C)C are correctly drawed by our Forum SMILES converter.

thetada · « **Reply #3 on:** February 03, 2017, 11:32:38 AM »

The prefixes should be in alphabetical order.

AWK · « **Reply #4 on:** February 03, 2017, 12:54:11 PM »

The prefixes should be in alphabetical order.

There is only one type of substituent.

thetada · « **Reply #5 on:** February 03, 2017, 12:55:57 PM »

Of course, stupid of me. But where different substituents are required, they should be alphabetised.