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in this video we're going to focus on naming organic compounds particularly alkanes so let's start with a simple example how can we name this alkane well we need to identify the number of carbons and the parent chain and so because it has six carbons this is called hexane now keep in mind one carbon is methane two carbons is ethane three is for propane four is for butane five carbons is pentane seven is heptane eight is octane nine is nine ten is decane now what about this example how can we name this particular alkane the first thing you want to do is count the number of carbon atoms in the parent chain or the longest chain now should we count it in this direction or should we count it in this direction the methyl group that we see here is called a substituent and you want to count in such a way that the substituents have a lower number and 2 is lower than 4 so this is the correct way to account it so how can we name it we have a method group on carbon two and there's five carbons in