Alicylics and Aromatics

- carbon chains can form 2 types of closed loops
- Alicylics are loops usually made with single bonds
- if parent chain is a loop standard naming rules apply
- with one addition: "cyclo" is added in front of the parent chain

3 different ways to draw organic compounds: 


1. Complete Structural Diagram

2. Condensed Structural Diagram

3. Line Diagram

- numbering can go anywhere starting clockwise or counterclockwise on the loop

but the side chains must be the lowest number 

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