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Q.
What is the correct $IUPAC$ name of the compound shown below?
Organic Chemistry – Some Basic Principles and Techniques
Solution:
When numbering diene preference is given to double bonds irrespective of positions of other alkyl and halide locants. Hence, correct numbering is
Here, halogen locants are at 5, 5, 6 positions, had the compound been numbered clockwise, halogen locants would have come at 5 ,6 ,6 which is wrong
