What is the IUPAC name of this compound? OH
CH3 – –CH3
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CH3

Question

What is the IUPAC name of this compound? OH
CH3 – –CH3
|
CH3

thadyoung · Answer

Hard to tell. Draw it.

thadyoung · Answer

But it looks like isopropanol

imqwerty · Answer

propanol :P

imqwerty · Answer

but y did u put that oh up there

thadyoung · Answer

More specific. Can't just be propanol.

imqwerty · Answer

carbon makes only 3 bonds but the carbon in the middle ch3 is makin more than 3

anonymous · Answer

My guess is they meant t-butanol and the spaces got lost when they submitted it. That would mean there's actually a carbon in the middle there bonded to these 3 $CH_3$ groups and the $OH$ group.

Specifically though I'm not sure t-butanol is the IUPAC name, so systematically we can find the largest carbon chain containing the alcohol group, which in this case will be a propane. Then numbering it we have a methyl group and alcohol at the 2-positiion so we really have 2-methylpropan-2-ol. Or alternatively you can put the 2 for the alcohol out front and call it 2-methyl-2-propanol.