Structures and Substituents
Moderators: Chem_Mod, Chem_Admin
-
akaylaco_1k
- Posts: 21
- Joined: Fri Sep 25, 2015 3:00 am
Structures and Substituents
When drawing the structure how do we know which carbon the substituent is coming off from?
-
Chem_Mod
- Posts: 23858
- Joined: Thu Aug 04, 2011 1:53 pm
- Has upvoted: 1253 times
-
Tiffany Chen 2E
- Posts: 26
- Joined: Fri Sep 25, 2015 3:00 am
Re: Structures and Substituents
Which carbon the substituent is coming off of is denoted by the number in front of the substituent in the IUPAC name. Which direction you start counting from to place the substituent doesn't matter so much when you are drawing the structure given the IUPAC name.
Who is online
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 5 guests