I have this one as a Ketone and 2-Ethyl Butanone?
Thank you for all the help. We just started naming, hopefully I can get it down.
Thank you for all the help. We just started naming, hopefully I can get it down.
1 Answer
Mar 31, 2018
Butan-2-one
2-Butanone
Explanation:
What's with the ethyl, no ethyl, an ethyl would only work in one case:
I would call it:
Butan-2-one
2-Butanone, double bonded oxygen on the second Carbon
Or:
Methyl ethyl ketone, treating the methyl branch as
I prefer the first one