Chemistry > General Organic Chemistry > 6.0 Nomenclature of compounds with functional groups named as suffixes

  General Organic Chemistry
    1.0 Introduction
    2.0 Classification of organic compounds
    3.0 Homologous series
    4.0 Nomenclature of hydrocarbons
    5.0 Nomenclature of compounds containing halogens and nitro groups
    6.0 Nomenclature of compounds with functional groups named as suffixes
    7.0 Nomenclature of aromatic compounds
    8.0 Radicofunctional naming
    9.0 Organic reactions
    10.0 Electrophiles
    11.0 Nucleophiles
    12.0 Breaking and forming of bonds
    13.0 Reaction intermediates
    14.0 Electron displacement effects
    15.0 Inductive effects
    16.0 Hyperconjugation
    17.0 Resonance
    18.0 Mesomeric effect
    19.0 Electromeric effect
    20.0 Inductomeric effect
    21.0 Steric inhibition of resonance
    22.0 Ortho effect

6.2 Alcohols & thiols

(a) $-OH$ or $-SH$ as the principal functional group

Example:


methanol


methanethiol


2-propanol


1,4-butanediol


1,3-propanedithiol


2-buten-1-ol


cyclohexanethiol



(b). $-OH$ or $-SH$ as other than the principal functional group

Examples:


5-hydroxypentanal


4-hydroxy-2-hexenoic acid


3-mercapto-1-propanol



Alcohol and thiol salts

The salts of alcohols and thiols are most simply named by adding "-ate" after the "-ol" of the name. Alternatively, the alcoholates may be named as alkyloxides (dropping the "yl" syllable for the first four members as in ether naming).

Examples:


sodium methoxide or sodium methanolate


potassium pentyloxide or potassium pentanolate


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