Using ido or o

[Faaizah Arshad 1H]

In the textbook, anionic ligands were named as fluorido, chlorido, or bromido with the -ido at the end. However, in lecture and in the textbook answer key, the ide is completely dropped and replaced with o like chloro. When do you use -ido and when do you use -o?

Thanks!

[Sophia Hu 1A]

I believe that using -ido is the IUPAC name convention and both are correct, but Dr. Lavelle said to drop the -ide and use -o.

If you reference his ligand names in coordination compounds sheet he shows both the name and IUPAC name, but he holds the name section which is what I believe he wants us to use.

[Kiran Singh 3A]

I believe either one is okay to use. In this class, I'm pretty sure that we will mostly be using -o (ex. chloro and cyano). Hope this helps.

[Lesly Lopez 3A]

Hi!

They are both correct but in this class I think that we would be using -o much more than the other option.

[Kareena Patel 1G]

For the tests, I would probably just use -o since that is what he focused on for his lecture.

[Andrew Wang 1C]

Hi! In today's lecture, Lavelle told us it was fine to use either, but he used -o in his lectures. -ido is a new naming convention that not many people know about yet.

[Ria Nawathe 1C]

Just a heads up, the textbook uses the -ido convention but the Sapling HW uses o!

[Josh Chou 3K]

Yeah I had the same question a while ago, and Dr. Lavelle just answered it in the most recent lecture. I got the Sapling question wrong several times because I was using chlorido instead of chloro, so I think we're mostly going to be using chloro for this class

[Nick Saeedi 1I]

-ido is the new IUPAC convention but it is not widely recognized yet so Dr. Lavelle said we can just use -o.

[Annika Tamaki 1E]

He said that both are acceptable, but -o is more common and widely used in chemistry.

[Katie Nye 2F]

He used -o in his lecture so to be safe, I'd say use -o because that's what he presented to us.

[EnricoArambulo3H]

The IUPAC uses -ido, rather than -o, but Dr. Lavelle uses -o since this version is used more in our future chemistry courses. I hope this helped!

[Nicoli Peiris 1B]

You can use either but he said he uses the drop the ide and add o!

[Marley Magee 3A]

Like everyone else has basically been saying, I would stick to using -o since it's what Dr. Lavelle uses.

[Sam_Marasigan_3D]

You can use either one. However, since Dr. Lavelle emphasized dropping the -ide and adding -o, I would use this process instead.

[Lorraine Medina 3E]

Hi! Dr. Lavelle said that the textbook specifically uses -ido, and we are free to use either that or -o, but he will be using -o in class and for Sapling. Hope this helps!

[Nadya Higgins 3F]

The textbook uses the new naming convention. However, as Dr. Lavelle mentioned in the most recent lecture, either the new way or the more common (old) way is fine. I would just keep in mind that, for example, either saying chloro or chlorido is an option, and both work fine.

[Akriti Ratti 1H]

I believe this was mentioned in today's lecture. -ido is the updated IUPAC ending, but we'll be using -o for our assignments.

[SamanthaTolentino 3D]

Dr. Lavelle went over it during his lecture and said that both ways are acceptable. The textbook and sapling use -ido meanwhile he uses -o.

[Emerald Wong 1B]

-ido is the IUPAC name convention, while -o is the older way. The older method is what we are using and learning now, but -ido is also accepted.

[Jordan Tatang 3L]

Like the others said I believe you can use either one.

[Minh-Thy Vo 3D]

Like people said, you can use both. I think Dr. Lavelle uses the -o way, but both are acceptable.

[Ravdeep Warar 2G]

In the lecture, it was said that both are acceptable, but since Dr. Lavelle and our homework are using -o, I will stick to that.

[Jerry_T]

In his lecture, Dr. Lavelle stated that either -ido (IUPAC) or -o (traditional) is acceptable.

[Kayla Booker 1F]

I believe that they are interchangeable and you can use either.