Discover the Difference Between 1,3-Butene and Butene Today!

[phee]

Is this

1,3 -butene?

or just plain butene?

 

[viciousp]

It is actually 1,3-butadiene

 

[phee]

So if there is two double bonds its di-"prefix"-ede ?

 

[Borek]

It is diene, no idea what you wrote - seems completely unrelated.

Technically correct IUPAC name is probably but-1,3-diene, but I am not going to pretend I am expert on organic nomenclature.

 

[gabriels-horn]

So if there is two double bonds its di-"prefix"-ede ?

That is correct, 'ene' though, not 'ede'

 

[Borek]

So if there is two double bonds its di-"prefix"-ede ?

That is correct, 'ene' though, not 'ede'

Somehow I fail to see "prefix" between di and ene.

 

[gabriels-horn]

Somehow I fail to see "prefix" between di and ene.

Yea completely fell asleep on that reply, prefix before diene.

 

[phee]

Thanks, I understand now