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Aldehydes and Ketones

Naming Ketones in IUPAC System

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Ketones are named with IUPAC rules by changing the ending "e" in the longest hydrocarbon chain to "one." For acyclic ketones, the carbonyl carbon gets the lowest possible locant, or position number. A five-carbon ketone is therefore named pentan-2-one, not pentan-4-one. IUPAC also allows the locant to be ...

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The IUPAC names of ketones are generated by substituting the final -e of the parent hydrocarbon with -one.

In acyclic ketones, the carbonyl carbon is given the lowest possible number, and it precedes the suffix -one, thereby giving the name pentan-3-one.

Alternatively, the ketone can also be named with t...

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