Question

Ethanol, an organic compound, has the following structural formula.

Answer 1

Ethanol, an organic compound is ethyl alcohol, in which the two carbon parent chain ethane has an alcohol substituent (-OH).

In ethanol the parent carbon compound is ethane and one of the hydrogens on ethane is replaced by an alcohol -OH group.

The chemical formula will be $CH_{3}CH_{2}OH$ which can be written as $C_{2}H_{6}O$

Answer 2

The answer to your question - what is the chemical formula for ethanol? is C2H60. :) hope this answer helps