This is known as heme, it's part of hemoglobin. I'm confused as the image below has both multiple carbon ring chains, alcohol (OH), and a pi bonded oxygen. Is there a specific name for this or would it be
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$\begingroup$ The concept of functional groups ceases to be useful long before you are supposed to look at this. $\endgroup$ – Ivan Neretin Jan 10 at 17:14
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$\begingroup$ I need it for my project :/ prob why I can't find anything about it. Is there a family name that I can at least go by? $\endgroup$ – Alp Tatar Jan 10 at 17:29
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$\begingroup$ You mean, like "alkene", "acid", or "aldehyde"? We don't use those either, except for relatively simple compounds. $\endgroup$ – Ivan Neretin Jan 10 at 17:33
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$\begingroup$ Yeah :/ prob why, since I'm only taking grade 12 chem ap and basically need to name specific compounds that are being tested. My teacher gave me this compound and I didn't realize how difficult it would be. Oh well I'll just refer to it as heme $\endgroup$ – Alp Tatar Jan 10 at 17:40
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1$\begingroup$ Heme is a @porphyrin :) $\endgroup$ – Alchimista Jan 10 at 18:02
