How to pronounce“six carbon”in English

Galactose has six carbons, so we can set up a Fisher projection with six carbon atoms.

If it's a six carbon chain with a carboxylic acid on it and an alcohol on one of the other carbons, our name has to do two things: identify that the hydroxyl group is there and identify where it is.

This dream, he said, was what led him to the chemical structure of benzene: a flat ring of six carbon atoms with the formula C6H6.

The most weighted of all is the carboxylic acid functional group, so no matter what else is on a six carbon chain, if there's a carboxylic acid, then it's a hexanoic acid.