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Offline cararose88

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Solubility???
« on: April 19, 2010, 02:37:47 PM »
Why is 1-butanol, CH3CH2CH2CH - OH, soluble in water but heptane, CH3(CH2)5CH3 is not???
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Re: Solubility???
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2010, 02:46:49 PM »
What does butanol have that heptane does not?
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Re: Solubility???
« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2010, 02:51:59 PM »
An OH???
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Re: Solubility???
« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2010, 12:53:47 AM »
Yup the OH gives butanol a site for hydrogen bonding to occur and allowing it to dissolve it also is a polar molecule (like dissolves like) where as CH3(CH2)5CH3 is non-polar.
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Re: Solubility???
« Reply #4 on: April 21, 2010, 12:55:48 PM »
because -OH is a polarity group
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