Nomenclature – Crash Course Chemistry #44

Ever feel like there’s an international team of bad guys changing all of the easily remembered chemical names and turning them into test-failing, number-infused, pain-in-the-neck names? Well… you’re not wrong. IUPAC exists but try to keep in mind that they’re doing it for the greater good. In this episode, Hank talks about IUPAC, prefixes, suffixes, ranking, numbers for carbon chains, and cis or trans double bonds.