Question

What is the IUPAC nomenclature of the following?

Answer 1

Hint: Cycloalkanes are cyclic hydrocarbons, which means the carbon of the molecules are arranged in the form of a ring. These cycloalkanes are also saturated, meaning that all the carbons atoms that make up the ring are single bonded to other atoms.

Complete answer:
The first step for naming an organic compound are as follows:
-Identification Of the parent hydrocarbon chain. This chain should have a maximum number of substituents of the suffix functional group.
-Here in our question, there is only one side chain. We consider it as the main chain.
-It is made of three carbons hence will be called propane.
-But wait, we observe that on the second carbon, we have a six membered ring attached.
-So, that particular compound is called hexane and since it is cyclic we will call it cyclohexane.
-The carbon chain because of having a group on secondary carbon, it will be called as iso. Hence the name will be Iso propyl cyclohexane.

Additional knowledge: Many organic compounds found in nature or created in a laboratory contain rings of carbon atoms with distinguishing chemical properties. These compounds are known as cycloalkanes.

Note:
There are also polycyclic alkanes, which are molecules that contain two or more cycloalkanes that are joined, forming multiple rings cycloalkanes only contain carbon-carbon hydrogen bonds and carbon -carbon single bonds, but in cycloalkanes, the carbon atoms are joined n a ring. The smallest is cyclopropane.