Cycloalkanes

Question 1

How to name cycloalkanes

Answer 1

-How ever big the cycloalkene is cylco has to be added to it ex: hexane must be cylohexane
-Number anywhere around the ring giving the correct priority to substitutes and lowest number between substitutes
Ex: 1,2 is correct not 1,6

Question 1

What is the priority for numbering

Answer 1

Lowest numer Alcohols, (Alkenes/Alkynes) Halide, Alkanes

Question 2

When do you name a cis?

Answer 2

If only 2 substituents and shows stereochemistry
They both have to be a wedge or a dash but does not have to be the same molecule

Question 3

When is it trans

Answer 3

If only 2 substituents and shows stereochemistry
They have to be opposite wedge and dash but does not have to be the same molecule

Question 4

What to do if the ring is substituent

Answer 4

it will be a cyclo___yl(name of parent)