Write the names for the elements in each of the following formula...

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Write the names for the elements in each of the following formulas of compounds used in medicine:c. Demerol, C₁₅H₂₂ClNO₂

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Welcome back, everyone. We need to determine the systematic name and the names of the constituent elements of the following medical compound N 02 and anesthetic. Let's begin by recalling that N 02 represents a binary compound. And this is because we recognize that it consists of two nonmetals. So we have specifically a molecular compound or covalent compounds and these two non metals are two different elements. So we have nitrogen and then we have oxygen. We're going to recall rules for naming binary compounds in which we would recall that the first rule being our first nonmetals name is going to be retained and we will use numerical prefixes based on any subscripts. However, we will not use the prefix mono. And then our second rule we want to recall is that for our second nonmetals name, we're going to use the base of its name plus any numerical prefixes given by subscripts. And we're going to want to use the ending of our name as ID for the non medal, the second non Medal. And we want to make note that if we have a, within our numerical prefix, which is before an O in our base name of our second non metal. Then we would just drop the A. So we'll write that down. Note a from base or sorry. A from the prefix before oh, from our base, then we would drop A. So now with this noted down, we have the fact that within our compound N 02, we have our atom nitrogen as our first nonmetal. And then oxygen as our second nonmetal, we know that these two are nonmetals based on their position on the periodic table where nitrogen is in group five A and oxygen is in group six A. Now note that nitrogen being our first nonmetal in our chemical formula, we just have one of it or one mole. Since we don't have any subscript higher than one, we would retain the name as nitrogen in our systematic name. We will not need to use mono, we're just, we're just going to say nitrogen. And then for our second nonmetal oxygen, we're going to utilize its base being and note that we have a subscript of two. So the subscript of two will correspond to our prefix as die D I, which will correspond to two of our oxygens given by the chemical formula again, having that subscript of two. And then based on our second rule for our second non medal, we want the ending to be eyed. So we would say that the suffix of our name is going to be ID. So now if we combine for our second nonmetal, we would have the combination of our prefix, first die, our base ox and then our suffix ID giving us dioxide as a whole for the name of our second nonmetal. And then combining our first nonmetal and our second nonmetal, we would have nitrogen dioxide given by the chemical formula N O sub two. And this would be our systematic name. So our final answer is going to be that we found our systematic name, nitrogen dioxide and we determined the two elements making up or its constituent elements making up our systematic name being nitrogen and oxygen. So these are our final answers. Nitrogen, oxygen, nitrogen dioxide as our systematic name. I hope this made sense and let us know if you have any questions.

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Write the names for the elements in each of the following formulas of compounds used in medicine:c. Demerol, C₁₅H₂₂ClNO₂

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