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The Hive => Chemistry Discourse => Topic started by: kjb1891 on August 27, 2004, 12:59:00 AM

Title: Nitropropane
Post by: kjb1891 on August 27, 2004, 12:59:00 AM
In the TiHKAL entry for for AET(#11) Shulgin uses nitropropane. I looked it up from one of my sources and they have this:

2-Nitropropane(aka: 2-NP, beta-Nitropropane, Isonitropropane, Nitroisopropane)

Is this the same chemical Shulgin used?
Title: No!
Post by: Barium on August 27, 2004, 01:20:00 AM
No!

Title: 1-
Post by: armageddon on August 27, 2004, 05:37:00 AM
And a bit more verbose: shulgin used 1-nitropropane or n-nitropropane. (or just simply nitropropane!  ;) )

...and there's also a difference between IPA and 2-propanol in case you didn't know it - and n-butanol and t-butanol are NOT the same... :)

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Title: Just to be exact...
Post by: Nicodem on August 27, 2004, 09:08:00 AM
...and there's also a difference between IPA and 2-propanol

You probably meant IPA and 1-propanol since 2-propanol is the same as IsoPropyl Alcohol. :)
For other bees who can't read basic IUPAC:

Numbers mean the position of the substituent on the longest aliphatic chain. n (like in n-butanol) means something like "normal" - not isomeric or straight chain (therefore 1-butanol but not s-butanol=2-butanol or t-butanol=2-methyl-IPA). s means secondary, t means tertiary.