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P dilip_k
Oct 28, 2016

Pentane

Explanation:

The compound is a saturated open chain hydrocarbon . So it belongs to alkane class and as per rule its suffix name is 'ane'.
Again it has carbon straight chain of 5C atom without branching This means its stem name is 'pent' . Adding suffix name after stem name we get the complete IUPAC name pentane

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