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Qualification => Subject Doubts => GCE AS & A2 Level => Sciences => Topic started by: aiyla on December 07, 2009, 12:09:51 pm

Title: Chemistry - Organic Question
Post by: aiyla on December 07, 2009, 12:09:51 pm

(http://i47.tinypic.com/rwmjpk.jpg)
can some one name that compound and draw its skeletal formula ?

Title: Re: Chemistry - Organic Question
Post by: nid404 on December 07, 2009, 02:20:27 pm

The compound would be

I'm not sure about the naming
i think it should be 2-penten-1-ol...ill cross check agn tho

Title: Re: Chemistry - Organic Question
Post by: vanibharutham on December 07, 2009, 08:06:31 pm

You can apply E/Z isomerism due to the restriction of the Carbon Carbon double bond...

i think the name should be:

(Z) 2-penten-1-ol