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Offline Andytango

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Is my textbook right?
« on: April 09, 2008, 09:24:16 AM »
My school textbook shows the following diagram and states that the molecule is called 2-methylpropan-1-ol. I was wondering why it is not 2-methylpropan-2-ol since the alcohol group is attached to the second carbon.



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Re: Is my textbook right?
« Reply #1 on: April 09, 2008, 09:32:48 AM »
this structure is
2-methylpropan-2-ol
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Re: Is my textbook right?
« Reply #2 on: April 09, 2008, 09:38:27 AM »
Thank you!

In case anyone is interested the textbook was the 2004 edition of "Essential AS Chemistry for OCR", page 77  ;)
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