Provide the proper IUPAC or common name for the following compound.

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Chapter3: Organic Compounds: Alkanes And Their Stereochemistry
Section3.4: Naming Alkanes
Problem 11P: Give IUPAC names for the following compounds:
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Provide the proper IUPAC or common name for the following compound.
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It is an unsymmetrical anhydride, these are named by first naming each carboxylic acid alphabetically arranged (without the word acid) and then word anhydride. 

For example this anhydride is composed of butanoic acid and Propanoic acid. 

 

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