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– ORGANIC NOMENCLATURE
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Directions: Write your answers to the following questions in the space provided. Use
complete sentences for word answers. You may use a periodic table to assist you.
Part A
1. What is an organic compound?
2. What is a hydrocarbon? What is the difference between a saturated and an
unsaturated compound? Give an example of each.
4. What is the general molecular formulas for alkanes? What would the molecular
formula be for an alkane containing 10 carbon atoms? 13 carbon atoms?
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5. Draw the structural formulas for
a. pentane b. octane c. propane
6. Name the following molecules.
a. b.
CH3
CH2
CH3 CH3
7. Draw the structural formulas for each of the following.
a. 2,2,4,4tetramethylpentane b. 4ethyl2methylhexane
c. 5propyldecane d. 2,2dimethylbutane
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Part B
8. What is an alkene? Would an alkene be considered a saturated or unsaturated
hydrocarbon? Why?
9. What type of isomers commonly occur with alkenes? Describe the difference in
the arrangement of those isomers.
10. Write out the general molecular formulas for an alkene containing:
a. four carbon atoms
b. seven carbon atoms
c. twelve carbon atoms
11. Name the following molecules.
a. b.
H CH3
CH C CH2 CH2 CH CH3
C C
CH3 CH3 CH3
12. Draw the structural formulas for
a. 3ethyl3methyl1pentene b. 2methyl1,3butadiene
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c. 3methyl2pentene d. 3ethyl2,2dimethyl3heptene
13. What type of bonds do alkenes contain? Are they considered saturated or
unsaturated hydrocarbons? What is their general molecular formula?
14. Draw the structural formulas for each of the following.
a. 1decyne b. 6,6dimethyl3heptyne
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15. Draw and name two different condensed structural formulas for molecules of each
of the following types of hydrocarbons containing eight carbon atoms.
a. alkane
b. alkene
c. alkyne
Part C
16. Write the general formula for each of the following.
a. alcohol e. ketone
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17. Classify each compound as one of the following: alkane, alkene, alkyne, alcohol,
ether, alkyl halide, aldehyde, ketone, carboxylic acid, ester, amine.
a. 3hexanone j. 2butanol
b. pentyl ethanoate k. 1,2dichloroethane
c. nonane l. 3pentene
d. ethyl propyl ether m. triethylamine
e. 2heptyne n. 1,2dibromopropane
f. octanoic acid o. 2iodopropane
g. methanal p. 1,2propanediol
h. q.
CH3 N CH3 O
i. r.
19. Why can a carboxyl group not be in the middle of a carbonatom chain?
20. What odor do you think cinnamaldehyde is responsible for? The IUPAC name
for cinnamaldehyde is 3phenyl2propenal. Based on its name, to which class
of compounds does it belong?
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21. From Question 17, draw the structural formulas for letters ag and jp and name
the compounds illustrated in h ,i, q, and r.
Name Structural Formulas
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
h.
i.
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Name Structural Formulas
j.
k.
l.
m.
n.
o.
p.
q.
r.
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