Naming Ethers - Video Tutorials & Practice Problems
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Rules for Naming Ethers
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In this video, we're gonna take a look at naming ethers. Now, recall ethers possess an oxygen atom connected to two al pal groups. Here, we're going to say because of this ethers have a unique naming system here, we'd say the parent name is Ether. And the way we look at our naming system is that we're gonna have our Alke substituents. So substituent one, substituent two as the beginning of the name and then we're gonna edit with Ether. This is the unique approach we're gonna take to naming all the types of ethers. We're about to see.
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Naming Ethers Example
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Here in this example, question, it says name the following ether compound. In order to accomplish this, we're gonna utilize the following three steps. Step one, we have to identify the two al Kel groups connected to our oxygen atom. So here is our oxygen atom here and we have this alke group connected to it and this all kill group connected to it here. This has 1234 carbons. So this would be a beetle group and this is only a metal group. Step two name the two alkyl groups alphabetically as substituents. So here we're going to say, we know we have a beauty and a methyl group connected to the oxygen. If there are identical, alkyl groups use the numerical prefix dye here, they're not the same. So we don't have to say like dimethyl or dibutyl. So we're gonna say here butyl methyl step three and the name of the compound with ether and then write the name with spaces. So there's a space between Butle and methyl and then the end of the name ether. So this would be bey methyl ether.