Can someone tell me what this is?

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  1. LittleBlackDress Registered Member

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    (CH3)2C=C(CH3)OH

    I posted it in another forum by accident. Hydroxyl group, methyl group, double carbon bond.
     
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  3. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    My chemistry is a bit rusty but wouldn't that be 2-propylethanol ?

    OK, very rusty... I don't know.
     
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  5. Sciencelovah Registered Senior Member

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    I guess it is a prenol (3-methyl-2-buthenol):
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prenol
     
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  8. Sciencelovah Registered Senior Member

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    also no, because the question contains double carbon bonds (alkene).

    I forgot the name but I'll draw it.
     
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  9. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    I already figured I was wrong lol

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  10. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    I can trow another one in though, maybe someone will recognize it.. :shrug:

    2-methyl-2-propylethanol (?)
     
  11. Sciencelovah Registered Senior Member

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    it looks like this, but my chemical also a bit rusty, forget how to name it :shrug:


    CH3------CH3
    -----\----/
    -----C=C
    -----/----\
    CH3------OH
     
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  12. Sciencelovah Registered Senior Member

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    I guess no, it should contain an alkene name (because of the double bond).
    Like butanol --> butenol.
     
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  14. Sciencelovah Registered Senior Member

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    That one would be:


    --------OH
    --------|
    CH3--CH--CH3

    2-propanol (2 propylethanol)
     
  15. Sciencelovah Registered Senior Member

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    and that would be:


    --------OH
    --------|
    CH3--C--CH3
    --------|
    --------CH3
     
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  16. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    Lol I know how it looks

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  17. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    See the problem is that I forgot how the double bond is made clear in the name.

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    Shouldn't there be a double bond in there ?
     
  18. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    2-methyl-3-butanol ?
     
  19. Sciencelovah Registered Senior Member

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    3-methyl-2-buthenol. Under IUPAC nomenclature, when there is both double
    bonds and hydroxyl, the numbering is started from C that closer to the hydroxyl.
    (I'm not so sure, though).

    Btw, not butanol, but buthenol. The double bond shows it isn't an alkane but alkene.
     
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    I have to draw it first to give the numbers and the position of alkyl

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  21. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    Yes that's it, I'm certain now

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    Now for a common name...
     
  22. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    Ok, yeah. Didn't know for sure.

    So 3-methyl-2-buthenol it is. (not butanol ? Are you sure ?)
     
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    Common name is Prenol

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