The IUPAC name of $C H_{3} C O O C_{2} H_{5}$ will be:

ethyl acetate

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ethyl ethanoate

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methyl propanoate

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none of the above

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Solution

The correct option is D ethyl ethanoate
The following compound is ester $R - C O O - R^{'}$ and the naming of ester are done on the basis of alkanoate group ( $R - C O O -$ ) and alkyl ( $R^{'}$ ) combined to form ester.
The suffix for ester is "-oate". The full name of ester is like alkyl alkanoate.
Thus the name of given compound is ethyl ethanoate.

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