Question
Question: What is the IUPAC name for it? CH3−(2)CH2−(3)C≡(4)C−(5)CH2−(6)CH3
Find out all the substituents present on the carbon chain. It can be any- from methyl to any alcohol substituent.
Start numbering the parent chain from the end such that the substituent gets the lowest number. This is called the lowest location rule.
If the substituent occurs more than one time, then the prefix di, tri or tetra is being used with the location of the carbon on which it is present.
If more than one substituents are present and they are different. So, these will be named in alphabetical order.
Here at third position triple bond implies and longest carbon chain is of six. Thus the IUPAC of Compounds is 3−Hexyne.
Note :
Remember that IUPAC nomenclature is needed because earlier every chemist gave its own new name to the molecule it discovered. As a result, one molecule had different names at different places. It was difficult to study them. No one knows whether the molecule discovered by him/her is the new one or the one that has already been discovered. So, the scientist devised some formulations to uniform the naming of compounds.