Monday, March 31, 2014

Aromaticity - 2 - Ortho, Meta and Para Positions





POSITIONS: 
 Consider an aromatic ring with one substituent X. The 2, 3 and 4 positions can be labeled using o (ortho), m (meta) and p (para) as shown.












 NAMING:
We then have an option of naming the aromatic compounds using the numerical numbers 1,2,3,4 or o, m, p to indicate the positions of the substituents relative to each other.