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Organic Chemistry

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20. Carboxylic Acid Derivatives:NAS

Naming Nitriles

Nitriles are a piece of cake when it comes to naming. It's as easy as adding the word "nitrile" to our name. Let's take a look.

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Nitrile Nomenclature

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Let's learn how to name night trials. So, guys, night trials are honestly the easiest functional group to name because there's nothing tricky about them. All you're gonna do is you're gonna take the name of your al cane chain, and you're gonna add the Suffolk's Night trial to the name. Guess what? You're not even going to drop the E, so don't don't drop the e. Just literally add the word and I trial at the end. Okay? Substitue INTs are named using numbers. Okay, They're located using numbers. Okay, so in this case, this would be a five carbon chain that has a night trial group on it. So this would be panting NYT, trial notice that I kept the e don't drop it, because then it's gonna look weird, right? Panting night trial, and that's it. So we've got a practice problem. Go ahead and see if you can name it. Yeah, if you could name it and then I'll give you the answer.
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Name the structure

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So, guys, the Onley possibly tricky thing about naming night trials is that you have to remember to include that first carbon in the carbon chain. Okay? Meaning that this is your first carbon. And it's part of a four carbon chains. This is gonna be, ah, butane night trial. And now I just need to name my substitue INTs, which appear to be a to three dime Ethel. So it's gonna be to calm a three dime Ethel Beauty mean NYT trial so easy. Don't you wish every topic was like this in or go? Okay, so then here's another one. Go ahead and try to draw it, and then we'll give you the answer.
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Draw the molecule

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And here we go. Six Carbon chain. 123456 Now that six carbon is part of the night trial. So then I would draw triple bond end. Okay, six carbons. This is my one carbon. So then I have a two amino that's gonna b NH two and a four Bromo. That's it. All right, let's move on to the next topic.
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