Question

An important industrial solvent, also a laboratory reagent called 2-butanone is nothing but:

• A. methyl ethyl ketone
• B. dimethyl ketone
• C. diethyl ketone
• D. propyi ketone

Answer 1

Answer: (A)

methyl ethyl ketone

Answer 2

The structure of 2-butanone is: $C{{H}_{3}}-\overset{\begin{smallmatrix} O \\\ |\,| \end{smallmatrix}}{\mathop{C}}\,-C{{H}_{2}}-C{{H}_{3}}$ Hence, it is methyl ethyl ketone