I am unable to find a solid answer to these questionsfor organic chemistry quest

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I am unable to find a solid answer to these questionsfor organic chemistry questions. What is the structure of petroleum ether? does it contain anether functional group? Compare the polarities of water, ethanol and petroleumether. The main change in the infrared spectrum as you go frombenzophenone to benzhydrol? What is the structure of petroleum ether? does it contain anether functional group? Compare the polarities of water, ethanol and petroleumether. The main change in the infrared spectrum as you go frombenzophenone to benzhydrol?

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The other name of petroleum ether Ligroin is asaturated hydrocarbon petroleum that has been refined. This productis mainly used as a laboratory solvent. Inthis form the petroleum ether has a structure which is composed ofparaffins, dicycloparaffins, monocycloparafins and alsoalkylbenzenes. This substance is also nonpolar.

The polarities of the Compounds are in theorder of :

     Water >   Ethanol > PetroleumEther.

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