Organic Chemistry

Memorizing Functional Groups

Chemical class

Group

Formula

GraphicalFormula

Prefix

Suffix

Example

Peroxide

79

Peroxy

80

ROOR

peroxy-

alkyl

peroxide

Di-tert-butyl peroxide

81

Benzene derivative

82

Phenyl

83

RC

H 6

5

phenyl-

-benzene

Cumene

84

(2-phenylpropane)

Phosphine

85

Phosphino

R^3

P

phosphino-

-phosphane

Methylpropylphosphane

Phosphodiester

86

Phosphate

87

HOPO(OR)

2

phosphoric aciddi(substituent

) ester

di(

substituent

) hydrogenphos-

phate

DNA

88

79 Chapter

131.15

on page

431

80

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

81

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Di-tert-butyl%20peroxide

82 Chapter

131.2

on page

423

83

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

84

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

85 Chapter

131.15

on page

431

86 Chapter

131.15

on page

431

87

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

88

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