Your Question About Easy Weight Loss

Paul asks…

How do you separate diethyl ether from ethanol?

Say a 50:50 mixture. How would you go about separating the two?

weight loss cardiff answers:

Distillation. They have quite different boiling points.

Michael asks…

Is diethyl ether Covalent, if it is is it Polor or nonpolar, if its ionic whats the crystalline shape?

What are 5 uses for it?

weight loss cardiff answers:

Diethyl ether is a covalent organic compound that is non polar.

George asks…

What would be the structure of a diethylamine molecule dissolved in diethyl ether?

I’ve literally spent a week trying to figure this out and I’ve come to two possible conclusions:
1- Maybe there is no structural change.
2- It is possible to combine them (double bond b/w N and O, lone pair on the O) so that the formal charge is neutral, but the result is a molecule the likes of which I have never seen before.

Which do you think is correct? Or am I off altogether? Any help with this would be appreciated.

weight loss cardiff answers:

There is no structural change in diethylamine but here’s a hydrogen bonds form between the hydrogen of ether to nitrogen in amine and oxygen of ether to hydrogen of amine . So diethylamine soluble in diethyl ether….

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