Clarification on IUPAC nomencalture
Between alkenyl and alkyl groups, alkenyl groups (double bonds) have seniority over simple alkyl substituents groups such as methyl and ethyl groups (See the new version of Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry: IUPAC Recommendations and Preferred Names 2013 (Prepared by Henri A Favre & Warren H Powell); Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK, December 2013, ISBN: 978-0-85404-182-4:
Briefly, it suggests "When several structural features appear in cyclic and acyclic compounds," low locants (numbering) are assigned to saturated/unsaturated groups in the following decreasing order of seniority: (a) low locants are given to ‘ene’ and ‘yne’ endings; (b) low locants are given first to multiple bonds as a set and then to double bonds; and (c) detachable alphabetized prefixes, all considered together in a series of increasing numerical order.
Thus, ene-group on cyclohexene get the highest priority such as cyclohex-1-ene (or, 1-cyclohexene). Since the double bond has the highest priority, the substituents on it (if any) should get the next priority such that it should have been 1-methylcyclohex-1-ene (or, 1-methyl-1-cyclohexene), if there are no other substituents. But in your molecule, there is an another methyl group present. Therefore that has the lowest priority. Since 1,2-numbers belongs to the double bond as mentioned above, that methyl can have been only 6 with numbering. Thus, the compound is: 1,6-dimethylcyclohex-1-ene (or, 1,6-dimethyl-1-cyclohexene).
Note that 1-methylcyclohex-1-ene has higher priority over 2-methylcyclohex-1-ene (lowest locant rule within double bond). Therefore, naming the molecule as 2,3-dimethylcyclohex-1-ene (or, 2,3-dimethyl-1-cyclohexene) is also not possible within IUPAC rules.
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Updated on August 01, 2022Comments
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J_B892 over 1 year
This is 1,6-dimethyl-cyclohexene. Why cannot this same structure have the IUPAC name 1,2-dimethyl-cyclohexene. In the given picture the locant sum comes to 7 but in my case it comes to 3, implying that my answer is in accordance with the rules. Aren't the alkyl groups supposed to be given the lowest number as per lowest locant sum rule?
Please do clarify. Thanks!
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ParaH2 over 5 yearsLook at this maybe it can help :)
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J_B892 over 5 yearsHow does the double bond influence the numbering?
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orthocresol over 5 yearsNote that the widely-cited "sum of locants" rule is incorrect. See: IUPAC nomenclature: “Smallest sum of locants”? and the answers therein.
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Admin over 5 years
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Karl over 5 yearsWith your alternative name, how should I know where the double bond is?!? It's incomplete and ambigous.
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J_B892 over 5 yearsCould you clarify how the first point difference rule works out here?
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J_B892 over 5 yearsIf an alkyl group is there attached to a cycloalkenyl group then the double bond always gets the least possible locant numbering.Right?
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Mathew Mahindaratne over 5 yearsYes, but lowest number goes to the most substituted $\ce {sp^2}$ carbon (if double bond has the highest priority).