methoxyethane

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| Name = Methoxyethane

| ImageFile = Ethylmethylether Structural Formulae.png

| ImageName = Skeletal formula

| ImageFile1 = Methoxyethane-3D-balls.png

| ImageFile2 = Methoxyethane-3D-vdW.png

| ImageName1 = Ball-and-stick model

| PIN = Methoxyethane{{cite book | title = Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry : IUPAC Recommendations and Preferred Names 2013 (Blue Book) | publisher = The Royal Society of Chemistry | date = 2014 | location = Cambridge | page = 703 | doi = 10.1039/9781849733069-00648 | isbn = 978-0-85404-182-4}}

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| OtherNames = ethyl methyl ether

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| Section1 = {{Chembox Identifiers

| SMILES = COCC

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| CASNo = 540-67-0

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| UNII = TF7D64JK16

| PubChem = 10903

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| ChemSpiderID = 10441

| ChEBI_Ref = {{ebicite|changed|EBI}}

| ChEBI = 39832

| InChI = 1/C3H8O/c1-3-4-2/h3H2,1-2H3

| InChIKey = XOBKSJJDNFUZPF-UHFFFAOYAP

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| StdInChI = 1S/C3H8O/c1-3-4-2/h3H2,1-2H3

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| StdInChIKey = XOBKSJJDNFUZPF-UHFFFAOYSA-N

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| Section2 = {{Chembox Properties

| C=3 | H=8 | O=1

| Appearance = Colorless gas{{CRC91|page=3-248}}

| Density = 0.7251 g cm⁻³ (at 0 °C)

| Solubility =

| MeltingPtC = -113

| BoilingPtC = 7.4

| RefractIndex = 1.3420 (at 4 °C)

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| Viscosity = 0.224 cP at 25 °C

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| ExternalSDS = [http://encyclopedia.airliquide.com/sds/en/053_AL_EN.pdf External MSDS]

| MainHazards = Extremely Flammable (F+),
Liquefied gas

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| Section8 = {{Chembox Related

| OtherFunction_label = Ethers

| OtherFunction = Dimethyl ether
Diethyl ether
Methoxypropane

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Methoxyethane, also known as ethyl methyl ether, is a colorless gaseous ether with the formula {{chem2|CH3OCH2CH3}}. Unlike the related dimethyl ether and diethyl ether, which are widely used and studied, this mixed alkyl ether has no current applications. It is a structural isomer of isopropyl alcohol. Its utility as an anesthetic{{cite book|chapter=Inhalation Anaesthesia; From Diethyl Ether to Xenon |author=Bovill, J. G.|title=Modern Anesthetics |series=Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology|year=2008|volume=182|issue=182 |pages=121–142|publisher=Springer|doi=10.1007/978-3-540-74806-9_6|pmid=18175089 |isbn=978-3-540-72813-9 }} and solvent{{cite journal |doi=10.1149/1.2083267|title=Thermal Decomposition of LiPF[sub 6]-Based Electrolytes for Lithium-Ion Batteries|year=2005|last1=Campion|first1=Christopher L.|last2=Li|first2=Wentao|last3=Lucht|first3=Brett L.|journal=Journal of the Electrochemical Society|volume=152|issue=12|pages=A2327|doi-access=free}} have been investigated.