Learning outcomes - after studying this topic, you should be able to:

• name simple alkanes using IUPAC nomenclature
• draw structures from IUPAC names
• distinguish between conformational and configurational isomers of alkanes

• Sections 16.2 and 16.4 (in Blackman, Bottle, Schmid, Mocerino and Wille, Chemistry, 3^rd Edition, 2015 (John Wiley))

• Alkanes (in Wikibooks Organic Chemistry)
• Alkanes (in ChemWiki)

Alkanes - structure and nomenclature Contributed by Adam Bridgeman

Brackets in molecule names Description: How to deal with brackets in organic compound names - always something people have difficulty with Tags: nomenclature | brackets | names Contributed by Adam Bridgeman