Talk:Vinyl alcohol

apparently ethenol can be made into a fule, is this possibe by burning it or by boiling it and running off of the steam plz answer me it's for my science home work. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.112.47.239 (talk) 19:05, 25 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not ethenol, but rather ethanol. See ethanol fuel. -- Ed (Edgar181) 20:10, 25 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

move to vinyl alcohol[edit]

I think this article should move to vinyl alcohol, which I think would be much more recognizable (for one thing it gets 50x the ghits of ethenol), and less likely to be confused with ethanol. I recognize that the IUPAC-v-traditional-names issue is a contentious one, and I'm not a chemist, but really, "ethenol"?

On another note, I have removed the suggested merge tag to acetaldehyde; the tag said there would be discussion on that talk page, but there wasn't. The merge strikes me as inherently implausible. I understand that, under ordinary conditions vinyl alcohol will almost immediately become acetaldehyde, but that's not the same thing as its being acetaldehyde. --Trovatore (talk) 05:19, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Done Physchim62 (talk) 10:17, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nothing about toxicity?[edit]

I don't know anything about this chemical, but was surprised to find that there's no information on its toxicity, as it appears to be a byproduct of ethanol metabolism (perhaps in very small quantities, but nevertheless). Shouldn't this be important safety information, even if it only amounts to some note saying that it's non-toxic (if that's indeed the case)? 24.57.106.253 (talk) 17:27, 28 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

If you knew something "about this chemical", you would understand why "there's no information on its toxicity" (and why chemistry is essential forming views on such matters). Check out acetaldehyde#safety.--Smokefoot (talk) 17:38, 28 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]