Saturday, December 31, 2011

Chemistry Help?!?

trans-3-hexene has the base of hexene and so it has 6 carbon atoms. The fact that it is hexene instead of hexane indicates the presence of a double bond. This double bond is found between carbons 3 and 4 (hence the 3 after trans). The term trans refers to the geometric isomerism of the bond, more specifically a trans compound has "similar" groups diagonally opposed to each other, that is, alkyl groups will be diagonally opposed from one another. This should lead you to the appropriate structure of trans-3-hexene. If not, check www.chemfinder.com and you'll find a structure. When the substrate above is hydrated, as the name implies, water is "added" to the molecule. That is the double bond will become a single bond and one carbon of the double bond will have an alcohol added to it (OH) while the other carbon will have a hydrogen atom added to it. The approrpiate name of the correspoding hydration product is 3-hexanol.

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