Ethyl group

The ethyl group is an arrangement of atoms of organic chemistry with the formula

And one of the alkyl groups. You can not be represented as a stable compound and exists only as a very short-lived intermediate in chemical reactions. The ethyl group can be mentally represented by abstraction of a hydrogen atom from ethane.

In the chemical literature, the ethyl group by " Et " is abbreviated, for example, diethyl ether as Et2O. Other examples of molecules with ethyl groups: 2-ethylhexanol ( C8H18O ), tetraethyl lead (Pb ( CH2CH3 ) 4), methyl ( CH3COCH2CH3 ).

The German designation ethyl group is today due to the Anglicisation of the technical language no longer in use and is found only in old descriptions of experiments, so called, for example, the ethanol before ethanol or ethyl alcohol.

The next smaller or larger alkyl group is a methyl group ( - CH3) and the propyl group ( - C3H7 ).