Placement of halide substituent in IUPAC name
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Nhat Anh Cao 1C
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Placement of halide substituent in IUPAC name
Do halides always come first in the name or does it go alphabetically? (I.e. If there was an ethyl and a fluorine anion attached to the same carbon, which would be listed first?)
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Re: Placement of halide substituent in IUPAC name
Because halides are substituents, ethyl comes before fluoro.
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