What would the naming and classification of this compound be?
I know this is somewhat iffy on the rule about asking what a compound is called, but I’m asking because I want to understand which part of the molecule (likely theoretical, I can’t find it online or anything and ChatGPT and I have gone back and fourth for an hour about it) has naming priority in IUPAC rules. I asked my professor and she wasn’t quite sure either. It’s a pentadecane chain where carbon 8 essentially has both terminal carbons of a pentane chain bound to it, forming a quaternary carbon-8 on the pentadecane chain but also cyclohexane ring, just where they both are sharing one carbon. It isn’t a fused ring system or a spiro compound obviously because there’s only one ring. Does the longer chain get priority (pentadecane, or even one of the heptyl “substituents”) or the ring, despite having less carbons than either substituent or the whole chain, if you can still count it as one continuous chain?
The best name I could come up with is 1,1-diheptylcyclohexane but I’m not sure if that’s entirely IUPAC correct. It’s obviously not 8-cyclohexylpentadecane, which is what ChatGPT keeps telling me, but as we know it isn’t really the best source for chemistry questions. I’ll include a picture I drew of it in case I’m not describing it well enough.
EDIT: What if we moved the fused ring part to one side to, say, carbon 4? Would that change anything?