Propyl acetate is the ester that gives the odor and smell of pears.
a. Draw the condensed structural formula for propyl acetate.

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Propyl acetate is the ester that gives the odor and smell of pears.

a. Draw the condensed structural formula for propyl acetate.

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Welcome back everyone to another video illustrate the condensed structural formula of beyl acetate. First of all, let's analyze the given substance. We can begin from the very end of the name and it says estate. Now, whenever we're looking at the ending with a ce, this essentially represents an ester and we know that ester, they have carbel which has an alkyl group R one and an alcoy part or two. So acetate is simply a common name for ethanolate. And we know that Ethane is a two membered alkane. So what we want to do is simply begin by drawing Carboni carbon, oxygen double bond with an additional carbon bonded to that carbon carbon, right? This gives us two carbon atoms which represents ethanol weight. Now, on the other side or the al Coxie part, this is where we are going to introduce an alky group R two, which is the beetle group, a four member chain and it is a stray chain. So we want to draw four additional carbons, 12, we and for so we have all of the carbon and oxygen atoms. What we want to do at the very end is simply include the number of hydrogens. And we have to recall that every carbon atom must have more bonds. So the leftmost carbon must have we additional hydrogens because we can see only one bond, then the carbon atom bonded to oxygen must have two hydrogens. The other carbon must have two additional hydrogens. The third carbon must have two hydrogens. And the final carbon needs we hygen to fulfill the valency because this is the condensed structural formula. We are not showing any carbon hygen bonds, right? We are essentially condensing them. We're only showing the carbon, carbon and carbon hetero atom bonds. Thank you for watching.

Propyl acetate is the ester that gives the odor and smell of pears.
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a. Draw the condensed structural formula for propyl acetate.

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Propyl acetate is the ester that gives the odor and smell of pears.<IMAGE>a. Draw the condensed structural formula for propyl acetate.