The correct structure of cyclobutylmethyl cyclopentane is

Options

A.
B.
C.
D.

Answer

c

Explanation

Here, cyclopentane is the parent chain and cyclobutane is locant methyl, had not the cyclobutyl ring been directly on methyl locant, it would have been numbered separately as in case of `(a), (b)` and `(d)`

`1-`methyl cyclobutyl cyclopentane `" "1-`cyclobutyl`-1-`methyl cyclopentane`" "1-` cyclobutyl`-2-`methyl cyclopentane