ester..
Asked by kanishkaaggarwal | 4th Nov, 2009, 04:42: PM
An ester is an organic compound which has an alkyl group on both sides of -COO- like
-COO- will be their in all esters with two alkyl groups on either sides.
R and R' may be same or different.
Alkyl groups may be CH3 - which is methyl,
C2H5 - which is ethyl.
C3H7 - which is propyl
WHile naming an ester, R' alkyl group is named first as explaiend above.
Then count the carbons present in R group add one carbon for the COO group and then write it as alkanoate.
Example:
C2H5COOCH3 is named as
Similarly instead of craming you can name the compound logically. It will be easy. If still there is some difficulty put another query.
Answered by | 5th Nov, 2009, 09:29: AM
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