What is the structural formula for ethanol?

Answer 1

ethanol and waterEthanol = C2H6O or CH3CH2OH as is more accurate to its structure.

Water = H2O

Water and Ethanol, when mixed together, will do almost nothing. However, about 10^-14 %of the time water will react with itself to form H3O(+) and OH(-). At this point the OH(-) will capture the loosely bound Hydrogen from an ethanol molecule. The resulting equation looks like this.

CH3CH2OH + H3O(+) + OH(-) = CH3CH2O(-) + H3O(+) + H2O

where the sign in parenthesis is the formal charge for the molecule. Remember, this only happens around 10^-14 % of the time and is very difficult to measure or even separate from the solution. Most of the time water and ethanol will not react and you'll simply get wet ethanol.

Answer 2

The structural formula is CH3CH2OH. The molecular formula is C2H5OH. (not C2H6O)

Answer 3

• Ethanol is a volatile, flammable, colorless liquid with the Chemical formula CH3CH2OH, often abbreviated as C2H5OH or C2H6O.

Answer 4

CH3-CH2-OH … ethyl alcohol

Answer 5

C2h5oh