Clarification on IUPAC nomencalture

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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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