STRUCTURAL ISOMERS

• WHAT SHOULD YOU GET WHILE LOOKING FOR THE NUMBER OF CARBONS IN THE MAIN CHAIN?

  largest possible number
• WHAT PUNCTUATION IS USED BETWEEN A NUMBER AND LETTER?

  dash
• WHAT PUNCTUATION IS USED BETWEEN NUMBERS?

  comma
• WHEN NUMBERING A SIDE CHAIN WHICH SIDE SHOULD IT START FROM?

  whichever makes the numbering smallest
• IF ALL SIDE CHAINS ARE THE SAME WHAT DO YOU DO?

  use a prefix (di, tri, tetra ...)
• WHAT DECIDES THE ALKYL GROUP/ SIDE CHAIN NAME?

  number of carbons (methyl, ethyl, propyl, etc)
• IF THERE ARE TWO DIFFERENT CHAINS THAT START FROM THE SAME POINTS WHEN REVERSED HOW TO DECIDE WHICH COMES FIRST?

  alphabetical
• IF FLUORINE WAS ATTACHED WHAT WOULD IT WILL BE?

  floro
• IF CHLORINE WAS ATTACHED WHAT WOULD IT BE?

  chloro
• IF BROMINE WAS ATTACHED WHAT WOULD IT BE?

  bromo
• IF IODINE WAS ATTACHED WHAT WOULD IT BE?

  iodo
• IF THE CARBONS ARE ARRANGED IN A CYCLE WHAT WOULD IT BE?

  cyclo
• NAME OF FORMULA WHERE EACH BOND IS REPRESENTED BY A LINE?

  skeletal
• GENERAL FORMULA OF ALKANES?

  C(n)H(2n+2)
• GENERAL FORMULA OF ALKENES?

  C(n)H(2n)
• GENERAL FORMULA OF HALOALKANES?

  C(n)H(2n+1)X
• WHAT REPRESENTS AN ALKANE?

  -ane
• WHAT REPRESENTS AN ALKENE?

  -ene
• WHAT REPRESENTS A HALOALKANE?

  -oro...ane
• GENERAL FORMULA FOR ALCOHOLS?

  CnH2n+1OH
• FUNCTIONAL GROUP OF AN ALCOHOL?

  -OH
• FUNCTIONAL GROUP OF AN ALKENE?

  C=C
• WHAT REPRESENTS AN ALCOHOL?

  -ol
• WHAT REPRESENTS ALDEHYDES?

  -al
• WHAT REPRESENTS KETONES?

  -one
• WHAT REPRESENTS CARBOXYLIC ACIDS?

  -oic acid
• GENERAL FORMULA OF ESTERS?

  RCOOR'
• GENERAL FORMULA OF CARBOXYLIC ACIDS?

  RCOOH
• GENERAL FORMULA OF KETONES?

  R-CO-R'
• GENERAL FORMULA OF ALDEHYDES?

  RCHO
• WHAT REPRESENTS ESTERS?

  -yl -oate
• GENERAL FORMULA OF AMINES?

  R-NH2
• WHAT REPRESENTS AMINES?

  -amine
• GENERAL FORMULA OF NITRILES?

  RCN
• WHAT REPRESENTS NITRILES?

  -nitrile
• FUNCTIONAL GROUP OF NITRILES?

  cyano group
• WHAT ARE COMPOUNDS CONTAINING CARBON AND HYDROGEN ATOMS JOINED TOGETHER IN STRAIGHT LINES/ BRANCHED CHAINS/ NON-AROMATIC RINGS?

  aliphatic
• WHAT ARE COMPOUNDS ARRANGED IN NON-AROMATIC RINGS WITH OR WITHOUT SIDE CHAINS?

  alicyclic
• WHAT DOES IT MEAEN TO BE ALICYCLIC?

  both aliphatic and cyclic
• COMPOUNDS CONTAINING BENZENE RING?

  aromatic