what should you see when 2-butanol is treated with NaI-I2?
if you pour ethylene glycol into water it mixes in all oroprtions. but if you bubble butane, a gas of comparable molar mass through water, it does not mix but just bubbles away. how do you explain these differences?
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Ethylene glycol is more polar because it has two OH groups AND it is shorter hydrocarbon chain. Butanol is a longer chain and it is less polar.
thank you!
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