Compounds containing the –NO group are named with the prefix nitroso followed by the hydrocarbon of the same number of carbons (recommendation C-851.1), while those with the –NO2 group are named as nitro followed by the hydrocarbon of the same number of carbons (recommendation C-852-1).
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Full Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Granada, with a long-standing research career in Computational Chemistry and molecular modeling and design.