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Indian Navy INET Organic Chemistry: Some Basic Principles and Techniques — practice questions

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As per your syllabus, rule 2, when numbering the parent chain, the goal is to give substituents which kind of locants?

  1. Always from the left
  2. Always odd
  3. Lowest possible
  4. Highest possible
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Correct answer: C. Lowest possible

syllabus rule 2: number so that branch positions get the lowest locant set.

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As per your syllabus, the IUPAC SUFFIX for a ketone (>C=O) functional group is which?

  1. -al
  2. -one
  3. -oate
  4. -ol
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Correct answer: B. -one

syllabus Table 8.4: ketone uses -one suffix (e.g. butan-2-one).

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As per your syllabus, in HETEROLYTIC cleavage of a covalent bond, the shared pair of electrons goes to which fragment?

  1. Both fragments equally
  2. Neither fragment
  3. One fragment only
  4. A third species
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Correct answer: C. One fragment only

Your syllabus: heterolysis = both electrons go to one atom; gives a cation and an anion.

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