Great question and definitely beyond GCSE level. Both of these functional groups normally have suffixes but the hydroxyl group also has a prefix (hydroxy) so in cases like this it becomes... 2-hydroxybutan-3-ene - the hydroxyl group is higher priority than the alkenyl so gets numbered from RHS
Thank you so much! That was very helpful, especially when you told that there is no difference between 2-butanol and butan-2-ol
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What about if it CH2 = CH -CH -CH3
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Great question and definitely beyond GCSE level. Both of these functional groups normally have suffixes but the hydroxyl group also has a prefix (hydroxy) so in cases like this it becomes... 2-hydroxybutan-3-ene - the hydroxyl group is higher priority than the alkenyl so gets numbered from RHS