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Give the IUPAC name for the following organic molecule:

Give the IUPAC name for the following organic molecule:-example-1

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4-methyl-2-heptanone

after the 4th carbon is an alkyl group it is is called methyl

after the 2nd carbon is the double bonded oxygen that makes it a ketone thus the ending of "one"

and 7 total carbone on your longest continuous straight chain

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