Ethyl methyl ether?

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Ethyl methyl ether?

Postby Alyssa_Hsu_2K » Sun Mar 12, 2017 5:26 pm

How do we figure out the structure of ethyl methyl ether in line drawing form?

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Re: Ethyl methyl ether?

Postby Raven_Gassis_2L » Sun Mar 12, 2017 5:31 pm

Maybe I'm confused on the question but methyl ethyl ether is just a line representing methyl connected to an Oxygen represented by an O and another two lines connected to the O representing an ethyl. -O-- like the but obviously how a line structure usually looks.

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Re: Ethyl methyl ether?

Postby Chem_Mod » Sun Mar 12, 2017 5:31 pm

An ether is an oxygen bonded to two carbon chains. In the common name of ethyl methyl ether, it is specified that the two carbon chains would be an ethyl group and a methyl group. So it would be a methane, attached to an oxygen, attached to an ethane.

See the google images results for ethyl methyl ether:
https://www.google.com/search?q=ethyl+m ... 53&bih=536

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Re: Ethyl methyl ether?

Postby 904826427 » Tue Mar 14, 2017 4:16 pm

Chem_Mod wrote:An ether is an oxygen bonded to two carbon chains. In the common name of ethyl methyl ether, it is specified that the two carbon chains would be an ethyl group and a methyl group. So it would be a methane, attached to an oxygen, attached to an ethane.

See the google images results for ethyl methyl ether:
https://www.google.com/search?q=ethyl+m ... 53&bih=536



Isn't the IUPAC name ethoxy methane?


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