Benzene rings · Intermediate

Draw 4-methylphenol

Draw the skeletal structure of 4-methylphenol, then check it. The checker compares the molecule you drew with the answer, so a correct structure is accepted however you draw it.

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Open the exercise in the editor and draw the structure: drag from dot to dot to draw bonds, and tap a bond or an atom to change it.
Press Check answer. Equivalent drawings are accepted, and a mistake such as a missing carbon or a misplaced group is explained.
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How to read a name like this

Benzene is a ring of six carbons with three alternating double bonds. Substituents are prefixes with ring locants from 1 to 6; a single substituent needs no locant. With several, the ring is numbered to give them the lowest locants, and a tie goes to the prefix that comes first in alphabetical order.

Some parent names already include a group on the ring. The carbon that carries that group is C1, and the other substituents are numbered from it. Ortho (o-), meta (m-) and para (p-) describe two groups on neighboring carbons (1,2), with one carbon between them (1,3) or opposite each other (1,4).

Draw the ring as a hexagon with alternating double bonds; both ways of placing them are the same molecule.

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The guide Benzene derivatives explains the names in this topic, with worked examples.

All the exercises of this family, with a short summary of its naming rules: Nomenclature practice: Benzene derivatives.

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