Question

Write down the common and IUPAC names of A and B if C₂H₆O is the molecular formula for two compounds A and B. They have different structural formula.

Answer 1

"International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) nomenclature is a followed while naming the organic compounds.

The last name is denoted by the stated of the suffix and then coming to the front. The molecules that will have triple or double bond will be added with the functional groups that can be alcohol or alkene group.

Then the carbon-carbon bonds are combined the complete name.

A = Propanal and B = Acetone (propane-2-one) are the name of C2H6O.

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