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Mobile App Chapter 10: Q15P (page 471)
Heating an alcohol with sulfuric acid is a good way to prepare a symmetrical ether such as diethyl ether.
a. Explain why it is not a good way to prepare an unsymmetrical ether such as ethyl propyl ether.
b. How would you synthesize ethyl propyl ether?
Short Answer
a) In order to synthesize an unsymmetrical ether by this method, two different alcohols would have to be heated with sulphuric acid. therefore three different ethers would be obtained as products. consequently the desired ether would account for considerably less than half of the total amount of ether that is synthesized.
b) It could be synthesized by a Williamson ether synthesis.
Step by step solution
How will reaction proceed
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Final answer
a) In order to synthesize an unsymmetrical ether by this method, two different alcohols would have to be heated with sulphuric acid. therefore three different ethers would be obtained as products. consequently the desired ether would account for considerably less than half of the total amount of ether that is synthesized.
b) It could be synthesized by a Williamson ether synthesis
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