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Ethyne on hydrolysis gives acetaldehyde(tautomerised).IUPAC name of product before tautome

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Ethyne on hydrolysis gives acetaldehyde(tautomerised). What is the IUPAC name of product before tautomerisation. Is it eth-1-ene-1-ol or 1 hydroxy ethene?

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abhishek

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14 Feb 2009 18:58:14 IST

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Its the first one according to the IUPAc naming rules .OH gets more preference over = bond.

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14 Feb 2009 22:54:59 IST

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the compound asked is vinyl alcohol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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14 Feb 2009 23:10:07 IST

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its eth-1-en-1-ol...rate if its ok..

abhishek

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17 Feb 2009 13:37:54 IST

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Debotosh are you out of ur senses.He asked the IUPAC name.You pretend to be a master of english and you can't read a petty question properly.........

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18 Feb 2009 17:15:33 IST

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By the addition of water to ethyne we get CH2=CH-OH, the compound may be regarded as derivative of hydrocarbon ethene, thus may be called Ethenol. The question of numbering in this compound will not arise as it has only two carbon atoms. It always implies in such cases that the functional group (OH in this case) is on first carbon, also the en indicates double bond is between first and second carbon.

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18 Feb 2009 17:47:24 IST

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Itsjust ethenol

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