Help name this organic compound!!

Using H NMR, C NMR, and IR, I deduced a structure for an unknown compund.Now I want to see if this compound's literature boiling point matches up with the experimental. The problem? I don't know how to name it (sold my OChem book a while ago and the internet is no help).It has the formula: C8H17NO and the structure is my avatar.It's 4-ethyl-2-hexanone if there wasn't that amine group. Now how do I factor that in?

i'll ask my mom tomorrow. if i remember.

JustinC The name I found for the compound is N-2-Methylbutylpropanamide from this website 2me-butylpropanamide

That looks like quite a different compound, sidelined. Your compound is an amide; justinc's has a dangling amine group at position 4.I'd call it 4-amino-4-ethylhexan-2-one, but it's about 10 years since I had to name anything, so take my advice with a pinch of salt!

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As I've indicated in response to sidelined, I'd call it 4-amino-4-ethylhexan-2-one. But you should be able to look up the compound by structure in a chemical database. If you've got access to NMR, I would have thought you'd have access to such a database - if you're unsure, ask your local chemistry department.These databases allow you to draw the chemical you're interested in and do the search based on the structure rather than on a name.Edited by JavaMan, : No reason given.

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You are correct Java and I really had no business attempting to answer that post. Chemistry is not a strong suit for me and I was up wway too late to think coherently. Thanks for saving me from myself eh?

Thanks for the help. It turns out that the integration numbers for my H NMR were wrong, so I thought I had an odd number of hydrogens, and hence a Nitrogen somewhere in the molecule.The molecule turned out to be nothing but 2-heptanone.