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Chemistry Forums for Students => Organic Chemistry Forum => Topic started by: mandy9008 on February 13, 2010, 03:54:45 PM

Title: Nomenclature of ethers
Post by: mandy9008 on February 13, 2010, 03:54:45 PM

i need to draw the structure of 2-ethocyoctane
attached is what i tried, but the reply i am getting from my online homework is that: Make sure the EtO group is attached to the right part of the chain, but i was sure that it was.

Title: Re: Nomenclature of ethers
Post by: Arctic-Nation on February 13, 2010, 04:49:00 PM

What you have drawn is 1-ethoxyoctane.

Title: Re: Nomenclature of ethers
Post by: mandy9008 on February 13, 2010, 05:06:46 PM

oh my gosh, DUH!! thanks, i don't know how i could be so stupid. i have been staring at this problem for an hour trying to figure it out. thanks!!