Name this compound.

2-methoxy propane

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2-methyl methoxyethane

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2-methoxy butane

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methoxy butane

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Solution

The correct option is C 2-methoxy butane
The longest chain of carbon atoms we can find here is 4. Since ether does not have a suffix, we always put the ether component in the prefix.

In this case, it would be methoxy since there is only 1 carbon.

So, final name would be 2-methoxy butane

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