A hydrocarbon in which a chlorine atom is attached to an methyl group can be named as ___.

methylchlorine

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chloromethane

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chloramine

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methane chloride

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Solution

The correct option is B chloromethane
When halogen functional group is attached to a hydrocarbon chain, it is mentioned in the prefix in nomenclature. The '-ine' in the name of halogen is replaced by '-o' and it is added before the word root. As a chlorine atom is attached to methane, the nomenclature of the molecule is chloromethane.

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