How to pronounce“methyls”in English

Now if you swap the methyls out for a couple of other slightly more complicated groups, then you get acetylsalicylic acid, or aspirin.

We’ll start with the smallest character class: methyls.

chemicals on the DNA molecule, the methyls, are getting erased.

As a reminder, alkyl groups are methyls, ethyls, and things like that.

Now that we’ve moved beyond just hydrogens, we need to communicate how those methyls are positioned.

The most energetically stable conformation is when the methyl groups aren't right next to each other, because there's only one gauche interaction between one of the methyls and the bromine.