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What is the structure of the molecule named m-dichlorobenzene?

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Jun 9, 2015

The structure of m-dichlorobenzene is

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Explanation:

The prefix m- tells you that the two $Cl$ $"Cl"$ atoms are on $C-1$ $"C-1"$ and $C-3$ $"C-3"$ of the benzene ring.

You put a $Cl$ $"Cl"$ atom on any $C$ $"C"$ atom of the benzene ring. This automatically becomes $C-1$ $"C-1"$ .

Then you count in any direction around the ring and put a $Cl$ $"Cl"$ atom on $C-3$ $"C-3"$ .

This gives you m-dichlorobenzene.

Its official name is 1,3-dichlorobenzene.

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