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Is the following selection of the parent chain correct? Comment.

Strategy: Parent chain is always the longest possible continuous carbon chain.

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In the given alkane, the longest possible chain has nine carbons as shown below, hence, the parent (root) alkane is nonane:

The previous selection of the parent chain is not correc t because it has just eight carbons.
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