11.2 Nomenclature of organic compounds

• Nomenclature is the system of naming organic compounds
• The stem of a name indicates the number of carbon atoms in the longest continuous carbon chain
• The shorter carbon side chain is called an alkyl group
• If there are more than one alkyl group, the prefixes di-, tri- and tetra- are used
• If there are more than one alkyl group or functional group, they are ordered alphabetically
• The carbon that the functional or alkyl group is attached to is the number used to represent it