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🔬 Two ethyl group 🧪 With two ethyl groups
diethyl

diethyl

7.8
Containing two ethyl groups in a molecule
  • adjective
  • /ˈdaɪˌɛθəl/
  • Specialized
translation icon : dietilo
  • First, you know that phenyl acetate is soluble in diethyl ether and that diethyl ether is insoluble in water.

Examples

  • I've got my diethyl ether now, and while my geometry here is not perfect, it doesn't look totally crazy, so I'll just go with that.

  • The chemist mixed the reaction in diethyl ether, ensuring the solvent was appropriate for the compounds used.

  • The solvent used was diethyl butyl phthalate, which is commonly found in many consumer products.

  • In the synthesis process, they employed diethyl sulfide to introduce the necessary functional groups.

Compounds

diethyl ether
  • Archaic
8.6

A clear, very flammable liquid once used to make people sleep during surgery and to dissolve chemicals

Surface Forms

diethyl positive

Morphology

diethyl = ethyl (semi-transparent) = di + ethyl

Formed by productive chemical prefix 'di-' (two) plus 'ethyl', so the structure is regular, but 'ethyl' is a technical term whose meaning is not known to most general learners.

Etymology

Diethyl breaks into di- meaning 'two' and ethyl, the chemical name for a two-carbon piece you meet in ethyl alcohol, so diethyl describes something that has two ethyl groups.