Question

Ethanol and dimethyl ether form a pair of functional isomers.

Answer 1

C2H6O is a molecular formula. Depending on how the atoms are arranged, it can represent two different compounds dimethyl ether CH3-O-CH3 or ethanol CH3CH2-O-H. Dimethyl ether and ethanol are functional isomers. ... The functional group (carbon chain-O-H) is present in both of these compounds, but they are not the same.