Methyl benzoate, which smells like pineapple guava, is used to train detection dogs.
b. Write the IUPAC name for the carboxylic acid and alcohol used to prepare methyl benzoate.

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Methyl benzoate, which smells like pineapple guava, is used to train detection dogs.

b. Write the IUPAC name for the carboxylic acid and alcohol used to prepare methyl benzoate.

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Welcome back everyone. Prop Proano, it is used in the fragrance industry for its fruity odor, determine the name of the carboxylic acid and alcohol involved in its synthesis. So, first of all, we want to draw the ester itself and assess Prop Proano. Let's begin with Proano because it essentially gives us the parent right. We can draw carba. And essentially what we want to do is draw a three member chain on the left side of carbona because it's Proano 12 and three carbon atoms. And Alroy means that the alcoy substituent is going to have a propel group bonded to oxygen. So we once again want to draw a total of three carbon atoms. So we have the ester and essentially we want to determine the acid and the alcohol required to synthesize it. Now, how do we get them? Well, first of all, we want to break the carbon oxygen single bond and we can simply draw the result on two fragments. That would be the simplest way. So we have our carbel fragment and then we are going to have our L cox C fragment for the fragment that has carbonyl. We simply want to add hydroxyl so that we are turning it into an acid. And for the alcoy fragment, we want to turn it into an alcohol by simply adding hydrogen to oxygen. That's how we have got the structures, we simply want to name them. So for the acid, we can simply state that this is proano acid because it has a total of three carbon atoms. Propo OIC acid. Let's recall that we always use a suffix of IC O IC, right? So propo OIC acid, what about the alcohol? Well, we have 123 member chain and hydroxy is bonded to carbon. Number one. So we are going to have propanol. What type of propanol? Well, that's going to be one propanol recall that we always want to minimize the low count of doh. So instead of saying three propanol, we're saying one propanol since it allows us to minimize the low for the oh and that's it. We have the names or the acid and the alcohol required to synthesize this specific ester. Thank you for watching.

Methyl benzoate, which smells like pineapple guava, is used to train detection dogs.
b. Write the IUPAC name for the carboxylic acid and alcohol used to prepare methyl benzoate.
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IUPAC Nomenclature

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