Organic Chemistry

Overview of Functional Groups

Chemical class

Group

Formula

GraphicalFormula

Prefix

Suffix

Example

Ester

51

Ester

52

RCOOR’

-oate

Ethyl butyrate

53

(Ethyl butanoate)

Haloalkane

54

Halo

55

RX

halo-

alkyl

halide

Chloroethane

56

(Ethyl chloride)

Hydroperoxide (see organicperoxide

57 )

Hydroperoxy

58

ROOH

hydroperoxy-

alkyl

hydroperoxide

Methyl ethyl ketoneperoxide

59

Imine

60

Primary ketimine

RC(=NH)R’

imino-

-imine

Secondary ketimine

RC(=NR

)R’

imino-

-imine

51 Chapter

131.5

on page

426

52

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ester

53

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethyl%20butyrate

54 Chapter

131.8

on page

428

55

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Halogen

56

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloroethane

57 Chapter

131.14

on page

431

58

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Organic%20peroxide

59

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methyl%20ethyl%20ketone%20peroxide

60 Chapter

131.9

on page

429