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