Thursday, February 11, 2016

VERT-BUTANOL

Today I made butanol C4H9OH. here are some facts about butanol and a photo of the model.
1. Butanol has four isomeric structures.
2. Melting point -122.8°F
3. Boiling point 243.3°F
4. Butanol can be used as fuel and is more similar to gasoline then ethanol.
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  1. UnknownFebruary 11, 2016 at 6:42 AM

    Notice how the boiling point of the alcohols are going up as the size of the molecules goes up? Same thing happens to the alkanes.

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  2. UnknownFebruary 11, 2016 at 7:02 AM

    This model is actually tert-butanol, an isomer. The main type of butanol is n-butanol, which is chain-shaped.

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  3. UnknownFebruary 11, 2016 at 10:58 AM

    Thanks for clarifying that. I didn't know there were so many isomers of butane, but it makes sense that as the molecules get larger, there will also be more ways of putting them together.

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  4. UnknownFebruary 11, 2016 at 11:00 AM

    I mean butanol ,not butane .

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  5. UnknownFebruary 11, 2016 at 11:02 AM

    I just looked it up and butanol has 4 isomers, while pentanol has 8.

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