The Use of Greek Letters to Denote Substituent Positions

Exercise 7-12 Determine the systematic names for each of the following compounds  

In the older literature, considerable use is made of the Greek letters a, ft, y, and so on, to designate successive positions along a hydrocarbon chain. The carbon directly attached to the principal functional group is denoted as a, the second carbon is /3, and so on down the chain  

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