Naming Hydrocarbons

Introduction

This is a material, which should help to learn how to name hydrocarbons. It is important to name them because other topics are based on knowing the hydrocarbons and naming them.

This is a video material. It is easier and more productive to learn from a video, because the theory and examples are told and showed at the same time. Good luck, I hope that everything will be fine!

Task

Watch this video about how to name hydrocarbons and later answer to the questions.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz6z2HyNU-k]

Process

Answer to these questions about the video:

  1. What is the first step of naming hydrocarbons?
  2. Where should be the start of a chain?
  3. What is the end of a hydrocarbon, if it has 5 carbons?
  4. What does the number at the beginning of a 2-methylpentane mean?
  5. What do you do when you have two or more substituines?
  6. What dou you write before a methyl name if you have two methyls?
  7. What part of a name do you get, when the substituitive is CH3?
  8. Why do you seperate the substituitives with commas?
  9. What word in Greek indicates "three" in chemistry?
  10. What can you do when you do not understand the example and it seems to difficult?

Evaluation

Answers to the questions:

  1. Locating the longest chain;
  2. The start should be the closest to the branch;
  3. It is pentane;
  4. It means the chain number, where the substituine is attached;
  5. You indicate the different carbons that are attached to and just write the numbers with a comma in the middle;
  6. You write "di", which means two;
  7. You get a word "methyl";
  8. To better understand where they are placed;
  9. "tri";
  10. You should draw a bond line, as it shows the structure and an easier way.

Conclusion

Congratulations! You have completed the first step of naming hydrocarbons! If you now think that it is fun and easy, I highly recommend learning more, because you will definitely benefit from it. One way, how to learn more about this, is watching more youtube video like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lLCl_jOW7E, https://www.youtube.com/wa…, and other materials that you can find!

Credits

The video was taken from www.youtube.com, this material can be used for students to learn about this topic, if it helps.