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This section provides guidelines for deducing the structure of a compound from a systematic name. For this, it is important to keep in mind that a systematic name generally consists of three main parts: (a) a prefix, or prefixes, corresponding to substituents; (b) the name of a parent hydride which includes nondetachable prefixes for heteroatoms, hydrogenation, and skeletal modification, or the name of a functional parent compound; and (c) in the case of a name based on a parent hydride, an infix, or infixes, indicating unsaturation, followed by a suffix indicating the nature of the principal characteristic group.
In the following examples, infixes and suffixes are doubly underlined and the names of parent hydrides are singly underlined
; prefixes are not underlined.
-methylquinoline-2-pentanoic acid
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