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Hello, I need help with names chemicals.

Hello, I need help with names chemicals.-example-1
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here's a few rules:

numbers

(you always begin the chemical name with one of these numbers, it indicates how many atoms of C there are)

  1. meth-
  2. et-
  3. prop-
  4. but-
  5. pent-
  6. hex-
  7. hept-
  8. oct-
  9. non-
  10. dec-
  11. undec-
  12. dodec-
  13. tridec
  14. tetradec
  15. pentadec
  16. hexadec
  17. heptadec
  18. octadec
  19. nonadec
  20. idos

alkanes

end with -ane

alcohols

end with -ol

knowing those rules, it's quite simple to name them

(all of those exercises are alcohols)

  1. 10 C and alcohol -> Decanol
  2. 7 C-> heptanol
  3. 8 C-> octanol
  4. 13C->tridectanol
  5. 8C-> octanol
  6. 11C-> Undecanol
  7. 6C-> hexanolbromide
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