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The first step in naming carbon compounds is to:

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determine the parent chain

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name the substituents

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C

count the number of branched chains

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D

None of these

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Solution

The correct option is A determine the parent chain
When naming carbon compounds, we first need to start by counting the number of carbon atoms so that we can locate the longest carbon chain or the parent chain.

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