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Methanol is more polar because is capable of dipole-dipole interactions AND hydrogen bonding while acetone is capable of just dipole-dipole interaction.

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Is that 50 percent methanol damage membranes more or 25 percent acetone?

50% methanol will damage the membrane more than 25% acetone. we did the lab.


Is hexane or methanol more polar?

Ethanol is polar, as the non-polar OH group still exerts enough force over the rest of the chain to make the entire hydrocarbon dissolve. This trend continues with alcohols with one carbon (methanol) two carbons (ethanol) three carbons (propanol) and four carbons (butanol). However, butanol is only polar when the OH functional group is attached to a secondary carbon (i.e. butan-2-ol) Hexane is always non-polar, as it is a symmetrical hydrocarbon (like most of them) which means that all forces cancel each other out. So ethanol is more polar than hexane.


Is propanol more polar than acetone?

Ethanol is more polar than acetone because in acetone the carbon that the O is bonded to is sp2 hybridized where as the carbon that the O is bonded to in ethanol is sp3 hybridized. Since the sp2 carbon is more polar than the sp3 carbon, acetone has a lower dielectric constant. Hope this helps.


Is acetone more polar than ethylacetate?

yes


What compound is more polar and soluble in water methane or methanol and why?

Acetonitrile is slightly more polar than methanol. This is due to the presence of the C-N triple bond in acetonitrile (CH3CN).


Why is methanol more polar than ethanol?

Methane is CH4 or H-CH3 Ethane is CH3-CH3 When compared to H- (in methane), the CH3- (methyl group in ethane) is more electron donating and hence ethane is more basic than methane.


Which is more polar methanol or acetonitrile and why?

Acetonitrile is a more polar molecule than methanol because of the triple bond and lone pair on the nitrogen (N) atom in acetonitrile. This makes that end of the molecule highly electronegative, even more so than an oxygen (O) atom containing two lone pairs in methanol.


Is caffeine more soluble in acetone or methylene chloride?

Caffeine is more soluble in methylene chloride than in acetone. Methylene chloride is a non-polar solvent, while caffeine is a polar compound. Polar compounds like caffeine tend to be more soluble in non-polar solvents like methylene chloride.


Is water more polar than methanol?

yes


How to know if a substance is a polar or not?

First of all you have to draw the Lewis dot structure of the molecule. If the molecule is symmetrical, it's non-polar. If the molecule is non-symmetrical or asymmetrical, then the molecule is polar.


Is methanol more soluable than methane?

Yes, methanol is CH3OH and methane is CH4. Methanol is polar (because of the O-H bond) and methane is non-polar (because it is a hydrocarbon.) Water (which is polar) will dissolve other polar things, but not non-polar things.


What 5 substances can be classified as liquid and flammable?

There are far more than five. Ethanol, methanol, 2-propanol, pentane, and hexane are five extremely common examples.