What is the name of #"PhCH"_2"CHO"#? Is it phenylacetaldehyde and is #"Ph"# a phenyl group?

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Truong-Son N.
Dec 17, 2017

Well, it is exactly as you write it. #"Ph"# is a phenyl group, an aromatic #"C"_6"H"_5-# main "body" to the structure, and the #-"CH"_2"CHO"# comes off as a two-carbon aldehyde substituent.

This is generally known as phenylacetaldehyde, or phenylethanal. Each vertex is a carbon implicitly connected to the sufficient number of hydrogens.

So if you see bonds like #"="-#, it's really #=stackrel("H")stackrel(|)"C"-#. If you see #"/\"#, it's really #-stackrel("H"_2)"C"-#.

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