Fields of Study

Nomenclature

IUPAC Naming of Alkanes With Substituents

This video tutorial goes over naming alkanes with subsituents.

IUPAC Naming of Alkanes With Branched Substituents

This video tutorial explains how to name an alkane that has a branched substituent using parenthesis rather than common names.

IUPAC Naming of Alkanes With Different Substituents

This video tutorial goes over the how to name a compound that has different substituents chains attached.

IUPAC Naming of Alkanes With Substituents with More than One Long Chain

This video tutorial goes over how to determine which chain is the parent chain in an alkane if there is more than one longest chain.

When the Alphabetically First Substituent Gets Numbering Priority in Alkanes

This video tutorial goes over the cases that would lead to the alphabetically first substituent getting the numbering priority.