Naming Branched Substituents isopropyl tert butyl isobutyl and more

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leah4sci.com/organicchemistry/ presents: Naming Straight Chain Alkanes
This video is Part 4 in the Naming Organic Compounds series
This video shows you how to name organic molecules with branched substituents showing you the 'long' way for each and the accepted abbreviations such as isopropyl, sec-butyl, isobutyl and tert-butyl
Many students struggle with naming because they attempt to come up with the entire name at once and often wind up missing a piece or two. After this series you won't have that problem anymore
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Hi i have a question, can we name the compound at 4:16 as 4-(2-methylpropyl)decane? Because in the substituent we can have longest chain as 3 carbon atoms or can we? Please help

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The substituent chain must start at the carbon attached to the parent chain. This means you cannot have a propyl due to the middle of the prop connecting the sub to the parent.

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I have a question about the example that starts at 2:00. Why wouldn't that molecule be 5-ethyl-2-methyloctane? If you start from the left of the molecule and curve down, that also gives you a parent chain of 8-> octane. But this gives you 2 substituents rather than 1 like you have. Isn't the rule choose the parent that will give you the most substituents??

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Thank you so much for this video, it was very helpful. I have a question tho. If I have a chain with tertbutyl and another substituent, how would I alphabetize it? Does it matter if I use tertbutyl or 1,1-dimethylethyl? I know that you’re supposed to ignore the tert prefix but that’s it

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If there’s 2 groups of -(2-methyl propyl) on the main chain? How to name ?

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9:18 In this example, can we not name the substituent as secpropyl? Since the carbon connected to the parent chain is coneected to two other carbon atoms?

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The smallest "sec" substituent that we commonly name is "sec-butyl". With this being said, a "sec-propyl" would look exactly the same as an "isopropyl" group. It's just that isopropyl is typically the preferred name.

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At 2:47 -- I am confused, why do we name the methyl first before the ethyl? Does it not follow the alphabetical rule?

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when dealing with separate substituents, alphabetical order puts ethyl before methyl. However, when dealing with a substituent ON another substituent, you have to name the sub before the parent. When methyl is ON ethyl, you name it (1-methylethyl) to show that methyl is ON ethyl at position 1

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at 2:55, how did you that the branch chain had a methyl and ethyl? why not both ethyl or both methyl? do you get to choose which ends to place carbons or methyls??

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The branched substituent on C4 is more commonly known as an isopropyl group. It is not a straight chain. Rather, it is a group of two carbons (an ethyl) with another single carbon (a methyl) further branching off of it. That's why we systematically call it "1-methylethyl". That means an ethyl group with an extra carbon coming off of the first carbon of the ethyl.

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When naming a long channel that contains isopropyl and methyl , in order alphabetical do we take Iso as ( i) or propyl ( p) ??

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I echo all the positive vibes on this post. You make ORGO understandable, challenging and dare I say it, even fun. Question. On the example with the answer: 4-(1-methylethyl) I was under the impression that 1 is considered the default if no number is stated. If so, is it necessary to have 1 in the answer? Also, why is methylethyl not in alphabetical order? Thank you again for a great series of ORGO videos.

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Thanks so much for your kind words. And YES! to orgo being fun!!! These are excellent questions! It’s always better to include more information than less. 1 would be considered the default in the case of having a priority functional group on carbon 1 of the parent chain. However, when naming these branched chain substituents, it’s the standard to include that 1. Secondly, the reason that methyl is stated before ethyl is because the methyl is a branch off of the ethyl. It’s a ‘substituent off of a substituent’. And substituents are always named in front of their parent chain.

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