Ethyl acetate, CH3CO2CH2CH3, is commonly used as a solvent and nail-polish remover. Look at the following electrostatic potential map of ethyl acetate, and explain the observed polarity.

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Hello everyone today. We are being asked for the following question. Ethanol is the active ingredient in alcoholic drinks, referring to the electrostatic potential map below describe the observed polarity of ethanol. So we've seen this molecule, we have some red area, we have a red area, we have some green areas and dark blue area. So what do these areas mean? Well, we'll start off with the red area. So red areas in a in an electric potential electrostatic potential map represents the electron rich areas. Right? So these are going to be designated by this delta minus sign and it's around the electro negative oxygen atom part of ethanol. So ethanol has an oxygen atom and oxygen is going to be very electro negative. And so this is where the majority of the electro negativity is going to be. If we look over at our blue and our green areas, these are going to be the opposite of the red areas. So they're going to be very electron poor areas. So you're going to have less electron density in these areas. And this is represented by the delta positive sign. And this is essentially the rest of the compound. So the rest of the compound and the rest of the compound does include the carbons and the hydrogen. And so with that we've answered the question overall, I hope this helped. And until next time