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I was solving questions on the MSU website on organic nomenclature. Out of the following questions, I got only the first and last one right.enter image description here Where am I going wrong with the others?Hints would suffice.

EDIT:I got the second one correct as well.

(2)----7,7-Dichloro-4-ethyl-3,3,8-trimethyl-4-propyldecane

Karan Singh
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Indeed, most of the names proposed by you correspond to the preferred IUPAC names in accordance with the current version of Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry – IUPAC Recommendations and Preferred Names 2013 (Blue Book):

(1) 3-bromo-2,5-dimethylhexane

(2) 7,7-dichloro-4-ethyl-3,3,8-trimethyl-4-propyldecane (your edit is correct)

(3) see below

(4) 2-chloropent-1-en-4-yne

(5) 1-bromo-3-ethyl-5-methylbenzene

For compound (3), you have to consider the relevant rules for the numbering of locants for substituent prefixes:

P-14.4 NUMBERING

When several structural features appear in cyclic and acyclic compounds, low locants are assigned to them in the following decreasing order of seniority:

(…)

(f) detachable alphabetized prefixes, all considered together in a series of increasing numerical order;

(g) lowest locants for the substituent cited first as a prefix in the name;

(…)

Note that Rule (f) takes precedence over Rule (g).

In accordance with Rule (f), compound (3) could be named as 5-bromo-1-methylcyclohexa-1,4-diene (which was your proposal) as well as 1-bromo-5-methylcyclohexa-1,4-diene since both names correspond to the locant set ‘1,5’. However, according to Rule (g), this example is named as 1-bromo-5-methylcyclohexa-1,4-diene rather than 5-bromo-1-methylcyclohexa-1,4-diene since bromo is cited first as a prefix in the name.

1-bromo-5-methylcyclohexa-1,4-diene