Just a quick question (2,2-dimethylbutane)

[Chromeo33]

I'm pretty sure I know the structural formula for the carbon compound, but I wasn't too sure as to what the semi-structural formula was.

Is it CH3C(CH3CH3)CH2CH3 ?

[98.40_for_sure]

Yes, that's correct.

[stonecold]

I think it is CH3C(CH3)(CH3)CH2CH3

Isn't that 2-ethylbutane 99.95?

[taiga]

Might go with the (CH3)2 though

I think the other could be misconstrued a little, because you can draw that out such that it is not 2,2 dimethylbutane

[98.40_for_sure]

I think it is CH3C(CH3)(CH3)CH2CH3

Isn't that 2-ethylbutane 99.95?

Isn't 2-ethylbutane CH3CH2CHCH3CH2CH3?

EDIT:.... can you even have 2-ethylbutane?
by chucking on an ethyl sidechain, the length of the carbon chain becomes a 'pent'

[Chromeo33]

Lol sorry you guys lost me there..

Taiga, did ya say that this was right: CH3C(CH3)2CH2CH3 ?

This seems to make more aesthetic sense as well..

[taiga]

Lol sorry you guys lost me there..

Taiga, did ya say that this was right: CH3C(CH3)2CH2CH3 ?

This seems to make more aesthetic sense as well..

Yeah

[98.40_for_sure]

TAIGERSTYLE how could you misconstrue CH3CH3? i can't seem to find any other way to draw it. So i conclude that both are equally correct?

[taiga]

TAIGERSTYLE how could you misconstrue CH3CH3? i can't seem to find any other way to draw it. So i conclude that both are equally correct?

My bad, you'd have to make an error to misconstrue it.

But you could draw it as a carbon attached to another, attached to another.

So CH2CH2CH3

Rather than a CH3 being on either side.


I still stand by my answer being prettier

[98.40_for_sure]

Pretty like... far east movement chick? she reminds me of nikita

[chansthename]

I'm with Taiga on this

[dptjandra]

Yeh, I would agree with Taiga, not just on the basis that it's "prettier", but the extension of that, which is that I believe it is probably the convention (and of course, the whole system is an artificial convention!)