Bicyclic compounds.

[inaccensa]

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http://bnaddy.columbiastate.edu/Study Guides Organic Chem I/Bicyclic Compounds.pdf


I can't upload the image here, but the compund in question is on the last compound on first page with a cyclohexane and cyclopentane fused together.

Why is the compound called 8-methylbicyclo(4.3.0.) nonane and not
3-methylbicyclo(4.3.0) nonane

Thanks

 

[RogueUnicorn]

in multicyclic compounds are numbered via highest priority carbon of the longest cycle, then all those carbons are numbered first.

 

[inaccensa]

thanks