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IUPAC name of CH 2 (CN)-CH(CN)-CH 2 (CN)? why won’t we treat CN as a substituent and name it as 1,2,3-cyanopropane? can someone please tell me?

IUPAC name of 
CH2(CN)-CH(CN)-CH2(CN)?
 
 why won’t we treat CN as a substituent and name it as 1,2,3-cyanopropane?
can someone please tell me?

Grade:12th pass

1 Answers

Rutvik jadav
15 Points
3 years ago
Dear Student , 
 
                                Actually , no other functional group is present so we have to take CN as our functional group , so we can not treat it as substituent
 

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