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ChemistryOrganic Chemistry - Some Basic Principles and TechniquesJEE Main

Muscone (a perfume secreted by the musk deer) has the structure of a 15-membered ring ketone bearing a methyl substituent. Its IUPAC name is:

Answer: (A)

Solution

Muscone is the macrocyclic ketone 3-methylcyclopentadecan-1-one (a 15-membered carbocyclic ring with a ketone and an adjacent methyl group).

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