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Ether and Epoxide Reactions
🕑 Added 2021-01-10 02:11:47 +0000 UTCThis organic chemistry video tutorial provides a basic introduction into the reactions of ethers and epoxides. It discusses the williamson ether synthesis reaction as well as the production of ethers using the alkoxymercuration demercuration reaction. The full version of this video contains example problems of acid catalyzed cleavage of ethers in addition to acid catalyzed and base catalyzed cleavage of epoxides. In addition, it discusses the synthesis of epoxides from alkenes using a peroxyacid such as MCPBA and by means of the halohydrin formation reaction.
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Jonas Benjo
For the example reaction at around 4 minutes in, wouldn't the tertbutoxide force an E2 reaction with the chloride group I assume that risk would be reduced if we used a polar aprotic solvent but if we were to use its conjugate acid as the solvent we would get its elimination product correct?
