Functional groups

Question 1

Alcohol functional group, prefix, and suffix

Answer 1

-OH, hydroxi, ol

Question 2

Halo alkane functional group and prefix

Answer 2

Any halogen, and chloro, or bromo, or iodo, etc.

Question 3

Aldehyde functional group and suffix

Answer 3

CHO (END carbon has double bond to O and single bond to H). -Al, e.g propanal.

Question 4

Ketone functional group and suffix

Answer 4

C=O, (One of the MIDDLE carbon atoms has a double bond to an O). -one, e.g butanone.

Question 5

Carboxylic acid functional group and suffix

Answer 5

COOH, -oic acid, e.g propanoic acid.

Question 6

Ester functional group and suffix

Answer 6

. O
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COO - C - O -

-oate, e.g methyl propanoate (meth was on -O side, prop was on =O side)

Question 7

Acyl chloride functional group and suffix

Answer 7

O
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C -oyl chloride
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Cl

e.g propanoyl chloride

Question 8

Amine functional group and prefix and suffix

Answer 8

• NH2, amino-, -amine
  e.g propanamine

Question 9

Nitrile functional group and suffix

Answer 9

• C ≡ N
  -nitrile