How+to+name+acid+chlorides

__**ACID CHLORIDE**__ __**What is it?**__ An acid chloride is a carbon derivative of a carboxylic acid. The -OH group of a carboxylic acid is replaced by a chlorine atom.

__**How to name it?**__ Look at these relationships;
 * ~ carboxylic acid name ||~ acyl chloride name  ||~ acyl chloride formula  ||
 * ethanoic acid || ethanoyl chloride  || CH3COCl  ||
 * propanoic acid || propanoyl chloride  || CH3CH2COCl  ||
 * butanoic acid || butanoyl chloride  || CH3CH2CH2COCl  ||

1. Take the stem of the parent carboxylic acid's name 2. Remove -oic acid 3. Add -oyl Chloride

__**Without having the carboxilic acid name.**__ 1. Count the number of carbon atoms - this is your stem //ie CH3COCL has 2 carbon atoms so the stem is eth-//

2. add -anoyl chloride to the end; //ie ethanoyl chloride//

__**More complicated naming**__ If something is substituted into the regular formula then the Carbon in -COCl counts as carbon number 1.

For example;