Cyanido vs cyano

[ValerieChavarin 4F]

I'm confused on these two terms. The textbook uses the form cyanido, but Lavelle wrote cyano for a naming example in lecture. Can they be used interchangeably, or are they different?

[Vanessa Chuang 4F]

There's a few different naming conventions. The textbook uses one while Dr. Lavelle uses another. They technically are the same thing but just keep in mind that if you choose to use a particular convention, you should stick with the same one throughout naming the compound

[Brandon Valafar]

They mean the same thing and just are different conventions. I'm going to use Lavelle's naming scheme since it is on his website.

[Claire Stoecklein 1E]

I believe cyano is basically a shorthand for cyanido. As long as it ends in o for an electrostatically charged ligand, it is named correctly

[Venus_Hagan 2L]

i think technically both are right. I would stick with cyano because that's what Professor Lavelle used in class

[Anthony Hatashita 4H]

They are interchangable and should give the same points on a test