Naming Esters

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Q1. What are the IUPAC and common names of the following ester?

Q2. Draw the line-angle structural formula for ethyl heptanoate that gives odor and flavor to grapes.

Step 1 Write the name for the carbon chain from the alcohol as an alkyl group. The alcohol part of the ester is from propanol (propyl alcohol). The alkyl group is propyl.

Step 2 Change the ic acid of the acid name to ate. The carboxylic acid part of the ester is from propanoic (propionic) acid, which becomes propanoate (propionate). The ester is named propyl propanoate (propyl propionate). Replacing the ic acid in the common name propionic acid with ate gives propionate. The common name for the ester is propyl propionate.

[islamamir]

Heptanoate is a seven-carbon chain, not 8.

[mrsxber]

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[svmega]

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[anshikasanju]

Means common name for propyl propanoate is propyl propionate.
If I am correct me.