Question

Please help :) Explain why a change in the position of a substituent group can, but does not always, result in a different compound. Give an example of when changing the position of this group results in a different compound and another example when it does not result in a different compound.

Answer 1

Well, I think this would deal with structural isomers. if we have like pentanol and we moved the OH group from carbon 1 to carbon 3, we still have pentanol. they can be isomers of the same compound where the connectivity of the atoms is different but the structural formula remains the same.

below you can see that the structural formula remain the same but we just moved the position of the OH group on the carbon.



well I think for this one here.

look at the example below. we've got an ester but what happens when we moved the C=O group right? we get a different compound, it's not the same.