Question

2- ethyl hexane is wrongly named. write is correct IUPAC names ?
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Answer 1

Answer:

In IUPAC nomenclature always longest chain is accepted, but in 2-ethyl hexadecimal longest chain is observed in the structure in another way rather the parent chain way. Therefore it is becoming 3-Methyl-heptane.

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