Comments on: Don’t Be Futyl, Learn The Butyls https://www.masterorganicchemistry.com/2011/11/10/dont-be-futyl-learn-the-butyls/ Tue, 20 Jan 2026 18:37:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: James Ashenhurst https://www.masterorganicchemistry.com/2011/11/10/dont-be-futyl-learn-the-butyls/#comment-564442 Wed, 18 Sep 2019 21:00:20 +0000 https://www.masterorganicchemistry.com/?p=2726#comment-564442 In reply to Rajat.

What’s your question?

]]> By: James Ashenhurst https://www.masterorganicchemistry.com/2011/11/10/dont-be-futyl-learn-the-butyls/#comment-563264 Thu, 05 Sep 2019 18:30:36 +0000 https://www.masterorganicchemistry.com/?p=2726#comment-563264 In reply to rajkumar singh.

capital, italicized N means that a group is attached to nitrogen. E.g. N-methylmorpoline. The lowercase n means “normal” as in, n-hexane (straight chain hexane).

]]> By: James Ashenhurst https://www.masterorganicchemistry.com/2011/11/10/dont-be-futyl-learn-the-butyls/#comment-561254 Wed, 21 Aug 2019 18:03:36 +0000 https://www.masterorganicchemistry.com/?p=2726#comment-561254 In reply to nishchith.

Neopentyl alcohol is a primary alcohol where the primary carbon is adjacent to t-butyl. t-butyl alcohol is a tertiary alcohol where the carbon bound to OH *is* t-butyl.

]]> By: James Ashenhurst https://www.masterorganicchemistry.com/2011/11/10/dont-be-futyl-learn-the-butyls/#comment-561251 Wed, 21 Aug 2019 18:01:56 +0000 https://www.masterorganicchemistry.com/?p=2726#comment-561251 In reply to benjamin.

“tert-“

]]> By: James Ashenhurst https://www.masterorganicchemistry.com/2011/11/10/dont-be-futyl-learn-the-butyls/#comment-561250 Wed, 21 Aug 2019 18:01:40 +0000 https://www.masterorganicchemistry.com/?p=2726#comment-561250 In reply to Shubham.

Yes, “t” is short for “tertiary”.

]]> By: James Ashenhurst https://www.masterorganicchemistry.com/2011/11/10/dont-be-futyl-learn-the-butyls/#comment-561249 Wed, 21 Aug 2019 18:00:43 +0000 https://www.masterorganicchemistry.com/?p=2726#comment-561249 In reply to Sujitha.

No. Just be systematic about it.

]]> By: James Ashenhurst https://www.masterorganicchemistry.com/2011/11/10/dont-be-futyl-learn-the-butyls/#comment-560515 Tue, 13 Aug 2019 21:14:00 +0000 https://www.masterorganicchemistry.com/?p=2726#comment-560515 In reply to Mohammad Ashik.

Thanks for stopping by Mohammad. Glad you found it useful. James

]]> By: James Ashenhurst https://www.masterorganicchemistry.com/2011/11/10/dont-be-futyl-learn-the-butyls/#comment-555283 Wed, 15 May 2019 02:29:11 +0000 https://www.masterorganicchemistry.com/?p=2726#comment-555283 In reply to gautami.

2-Chloropentane

]]> By: James Ashenhurst https://www.masterorganicchemistry.com/2011/11/10/dont-be-futyl-learn-the-butyls/#comment-555181 Mon, 13 May 2019 16:27:24 +0000 https://www.masterorganicchemistry.com/?p=2726#comment-555181 In reply to MO.

Yes, neopentyl alcohol is a different name for 2,2-dimethylpropanol.

]]> By: James Ashenhurst https://www.masterorganicchemistry.com/2011/11/10/dont-be-futyl-learn-the-butyls/#comment-555169 Mon, 13 May 2019 16:13:26 +0000 https://www.masterorganicchemistry.com/?p=2726#comment-555169 In reply to Anvita.

t-butyl decane doesn’t really make any sense.
Isopropyl t-butyl acetylene is not the best way of describing the molecule, but what you’d do is build a carbon-carbon triple bond, and then put a t-butyl group on one side and an isopropyl group on the other. It would actually be 2,2,5-trimethyl-hex-2-yne.

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