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methoxyethane
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Methoxyethane, also known as ethyl methyl ether, is a colorless gaseous ether with the formula . Unlike the related dimethyl ether and diethyl ether, which are widely used and studied, this mixed alkyl ether has no current applications. It is a structural isomer of isopropyl alcohol. Its utility as an anesthetic and solvent have been investigated.
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Within Vinony's link graph, methoxyethane is referenced by 202 other articles, and connects out to acrylonitrile, water and hydrogen.
It sits within the topics Dialkyl ethers, ECHA InfoCard ID from Wikidata and Ether solvents.
Its subject is documented across 22 Wikipedia language editions.
Chemical data
- Formula
- C3H8O
- Molecular weight
- 60.1 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- methoxyethane
- SMILES
- CCOC
- InChIKey
- XOBKSJJDNFUZPF-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- 0.4
- Polar surface area
- 9.2 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 1
- Formal charge
- 0
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Wikidata facts
- Mass
- 60.058
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- chemical formula
- C₃H₈O
- canonical SMILES
- CCOC
- Commons category
- Methoxyethane
- electric dipole moment
- 1.17
- ionization energy
- 9.72
- melting point
- -113
- boiling point
- 7.45
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Encyclopedic overview
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Methoxyethane, also known as ethyl methyl ether, is a colorless gaseous ether with the formula . Unlike the related dimethyl ether and diethyl ether, which are widely used and studied, this mixed alkyl ether has no current applications. It is a structural isomer of isopropyl alcohol. Its utility as an anesthetic and solvent have been investigated.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “methoxyethane” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.