What is the iupac name for ch3ch2cooag? [closed]








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Like ch3coo is acetate group and is named accordingly,how to name this one.




Start with the acid $\ce{CH\_3CH\_2COOH}$. This is clearly the one and only simple carboxylic acid derived from an unsubstituted propane chain, so it's


"Propan-" from the propane chain


plus "-oic acid" from the carboxyl group (we don't need a locant because there is only one place to fit that group)


= propanoic acid


Then the silver salt is silver propanoate, the "-ic acid" part becomes "-ate" just like inorganic salts. 


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