How to Write the Structure for 2-Butanone

Описание: To write the structure for organic molecule 2-Butanone (also called methylpropane and isobutane) we’ll start by writing a four carbon chain. 2-Butanone is a ketone with four carbon atoms connected to an oxygen atom with double bond

Since it is 2-Butanone we’ll put an oxygen atom double bonded to Carbon atom number two. This gives us the correct structure for 2-Butanone

We can also write the structure using straight lines without the element symbols, which is a sort of molecular structure shorthand. Finally, we could represent the structure with molecular models to provide further information about the molecular geometry.