AROMATIC

COMPOUNDS
Aromatic Compounds
❖ Use to describe fragrant substances as
a. benzene (coal distillates)
Uses- plastics, nylons, rubber, detergents, drugs and
pesticides.
b. benzaldehyde (cherries, peaches, and almonds)
Uses- flavorings, perfumes
c. toluene (tolu balsam)
Uses: solvent in paints, thinners, glues, correctional fluid
and etc.
❖ Class of compounds that contain six-membered benzene-like
rings with three alternating double bond
Benzene’s effect to human health
Benzene can cause leukemia when to much exposure
✓ drugs- dimenhydrinate (nausea, vomiting, vertigo)
✓ paints
✓ detergent and etc.
Benzene structure
• Benzene (C6H6)
Naming Aromatic Compound
• Aromatic substances, more than any other class of
organic compounds, have acquired a large number of
common names. IUPAC rules discourage the use of most
such names but allow some of the more widely used ones
to be retained (Table 5.1).
 IUPAC-Methylbenzene

IUPAC-Hydroxybenzene
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Tips on Naming Aromatic Compounds
• Remember and familiarize the aromatic compounds with
common names, and the functional groups.
• Identify the substitution/substituents ( mono, di or many)
• Number the carbons (for di and many substituents)
• Name in alphabetical order
Naming Monosubstituted Benzenes

Bromobenzene Nitrobenzene Ethylbenzene

Naming Disubstituted Benzenes
• Use the prefixes
a. ortho (o)- 1,2 relationship
b. meta (m)- 1,3 relationship
c. para (p)- 1,4 relationship
ortho-dichlorobenzene meta-xylene para-chlorobenzaldehyde
 Br

Br

Ortho-dibromobenzene
Naming with more than two substituents
Try this !
Quiz- Aromatic Compound
 Quiz 5
Aromatic Compound
Reference
• McMurry, John. (2011). Fundamentals of Organic
Chemistry, 7th Ed. Brooks/Cole,Cengage Learning
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