Alcohols bond-line structures

PRACTICE PROBLEM 2.12 Write bond-line structural formulas for (a) two primary alcohols, (b) a secondary... 

Draw a bond-line structure of polyvinyl alcohol. Explain why the polymer is prepared by the hydrolysis of polyvinyl acetate. What monomer is required to prepare the following polymer ... 

The most common type of structural formula used by organic chemists, and the fastest to draw, is the bond-line formula. (Some chemists call these skeletal formulas.) The formula in Fig. 1.3 is a bond-line formula for propyl alcohol. The sooner you master the use of bond-line formulas, the more quickly you will be able to draw molecules when you take notes and work problems. And, lacking all of the symbols that are explicitly shown in dash and condensed structural formulas, bond-line formulas allow you to more quickly interpret molecular connectivity and compare one molecular formula with another. 

A structural formula uses lines between atoms to indicate the covalent bonds. Thus, the two carbon atoms in ethyl alcohol are covalently bonded to each other, the oxygen atom is bonded to one of the carbon atoms, and the six hydrogen atoms are distributed three to one carbon, two to the other carbon, and one to the oxygen. 

Similarly, there are several ways in which anions are represented. Sometimes a line represents a pair of electrons (as in bonds or lone pairs of electrons), sometimes a line represents a negative charge, and sometimes a line means both. The following structures represent the anion formed when a proton is removed from the oxygen of isopropyl alcohol. 

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