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The structure of a typical methoxy group. In organic chemistry, a methoxy group is the functional group consisting of a methyl group bound to oxygen.This alkoxy group has the formula R−O−CH 3.
Sodium methoxide is prepared by treating methanol with sodium: 2 Na + 2 CH 3 OH → 2 CH 3 ONa + H 2. The reaction is so exothermic that ignition is possible. The resulting solution, which is colorless, is often used as a source of sodium methoxide, but the pure material can be isolated by evaporation followed by heating to remove residual methanol.
Dimethyl ether (DME; also known as methoxymethane) is the organic compound with the formula CH 3 OCH 3, (sometimes ambiguously simplified to C 2 H 6 O as it is an isomer of ethanol).
The hydroxymethyl group is a substituent with the structural formula −CH 2 −OH.It consists of a methylene bridge (−CH 2 − unit) bonded to a hydroxyl group (−OH).This makes the hydroxymethyl group an alcohol.
Anisole undergoes electrophilic aromatic substitution reaction at a faster speed than benzene, which in turn reacts more quickly than nitrobenzene.The methoxy group is an ortho/para directing group, which means that electrophilic substitution preferentially occurs at these three sites.
In organic chemistry, a functional group is a substituent or moiety in a molecule that causes the molecule's characteristic chemical reactions.The same functional group will undergo the same or similar chemical reactions regardless of the rest of the molecule's composition.
Methyltrimethoxysilane is usually prepared from methyltrichlorosilane and methanol: . CH 3 SiCl 3 + 3 CH 3 OH → CH 3 Si(OCH 3) 3 + 3 HCl. Alcoholysis of alkylchlorosilanes typically proceeds via an S N 2 mechanism.