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How we write alkane to Carboxylic acids when n=1,n=3?​

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The IUPAC name of a carboxylic acid is derived from that of the longest carbon chain that contains the carboxyl group by dropping the final -e from the name of the parent alkane and adding the suffix -oic followed by the word “acid.” The chain is numbered beginning with the carbon of the carboxyl group.