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Grade 12Organic Chemistry

While numbering the longest carbon chain, in case of carboxylic functional group In some compounds i observed that the counting includes the carbon of CO2H while in other the counting starts from the next carbon . Please solve my doubt.

Profile image of Pratik Sharma
16 Years agoGrade 12
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Profile image of mimi ganguly
16 Years ago

the carbon of the carboxylic acid is usually taken as no.1 nd others counted thereafter