Questions: Write an acceptable IUPAC name for the compound below. (Only systematic names, not common names are accepted by this question.) Keep the information page open for feedback reference. The IUPAC name is

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The longest carbon chain is a six-membered ring, which makes it cyclohexane.

There are two substituents: a ketone (=O) and a hydroxyl group (-OH). Ketones are higher priority, so the carbon it is attached to becomes carbon 1. Numbering around the ring, the -OH group is on carbon 2.

The ketone group on a cyclohexane ring is called cyclohexanone. The hydroxyl group is a hydroxy substituent. Combining this gives us 2-hydroxycyclohexanone.

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