Ester s can be tricky to name. Why? Because we won't see the word "ester" at all in the name. So how will we name them?
Well, we can name them using both the Common and IUPAC naming system and by breaking apart the functional group in 2. Let's take a look.
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Ester Nomenclature
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on this page, we're gonna learn how to name Esther's. So guys esters are actually one of the hardest functional groups to name. And that's because Esther is one of the Onley functional group that the name of the functional group is not found anywhere in the nomenclature. Meaning that if you haven't Esther, you're not gonna actually see the name Esther anywhere. So what is the name? Well, it turns out that an Esther is named of two components. So imagine that you've gotten s remember that the general structure is C o R. Right. Well, what they consider is that everything on this side is an alcohol group. Okay, so you named this as an alcohol group, and then the way that they named the other side is they think, Well, this looks a lot like this side here. Looks a lot like a carb oxalic acid, but without the h, what do you call it when a carb oxalic acid is missing? It's h. You call it a car Boxley. Okay, so it's an Al Cheol car Boxley. That sucks, right? So we name it as an alcohol car box like, and you have to determine what that name is gonna be okay. So, I mean, I'll do a worked example here, and then I'll let you guys go to do it yourself. Okay, so here. Okay, we've got a nester, obviously. And we have an alcohol group and a car box lates the way would name this is the AL Q Group. Is Ethel okay to carbon chain? And the car box light could be named in one of two ways it could be named as the common name. Should be a two carbon chain, which would be acetic acid. Okay, which would be acetate? Right, Because acetate is the negative. And I am or that's in the common name or could be named as ethanol. Wait, because it's ethanol IQ acids of the AIPAC and guys, both of these would be correct. Okay, so you'll hear ethyl acetate. You'll hear Ethel Ethel Ethane away. Um, obviously, acetate is way more common. You hear that? Everywhere. So ethyl acetate would be the name of that structure there. Okay, so let's go ahead and move on to this practice problem. Let's see if you can get it right
Name as an alkyl + carboxylate
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Name the structure
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so, guys, I would have accepted two answers for this question. So if you did common, that's fine. If you did, I pack. That's also fine. So my out kill group in this case is cyclo pencil. Okay, a cyclo pencil group. And then my car Boxley in common would be Valerie. Right, Val? A rate, um, in AIPAC it would be Penton. Await. Okay, so both of these air correct. So I'm gonna put here cyclo pencil, Valerie or cyclo pencil. Penton Ali. Okay, again, guys. See how tricky this is that if you didn't take the time to learn it, you might not recognize that this is an Esther on an exam because it doesn't have the word Esther in it, right? It's like, who thought of that? Someone really messed up. So see, if you guys can go ahead and draw the one below
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Alright, guys. So what I would do is I would start off with the general structure oven. Esther. First of all, how do you even know what functional group this is? Obviously, it's on the Esther page. So you're thinking, Esther? But what if you saw this on an exam and just in the middle of a bunch of stuff? Well, what you could think is that I've gotten alcohol group and four mate is a car Boxley. So when you see alcohol and curb Oxlade together, that screams Esther. Okay, Once you've made that connection, draw your general structure of a nester, So I'm gonna draw O R and R. Okay, Now all I need to do is really just plug and chug. I just take the are groups from my name, and I replace them. So the isopropyl part does that part go on R one or R two, what do you think are to Okay, so that means that that's my alcohol group. I'm gonna write it like this. Okay, so I have is a Pro Bowl for me. What type of car? Oxalic acid is a for meat. Formic acid is a one carbon car oxalic acid, meaning that this is actually in h. Okay, because it's just the one. Carbon comes from the carbon eel. So this is your structure isopropyl for mate. Awesome guys. So let's move on.