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Chapter 14 Ethers.... Flashcards

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Ethers have low boiling points due to a lacking of what intermolecular force

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Hydrogen bonding

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Ethers have low reactivity making them good what?

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Solvents

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Best at solvating what type of ion,

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Cations

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Crown ethers are used to do what

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Encapsulate cations

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Epoxides are

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Three member ether rigs

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Four member ether rings

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Oxetanes

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Five member ether rings are

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Furanes

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Six member ether rings

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Pyrane

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Williamson ether synthesis requires

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Alkoxide and alkyl haylide

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Can phenols be used as alkoxide or alkyl halide in Williamson ether synth.

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Alkoxides

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Why can’t phenols be used as alkyle halides in Williamson ether synth.

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Hindrance from the ring structure doesn’t allow an SN2 attack by the alkoxide

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Alkoxy murcuration requires what to create an ether

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Hg(OAc)2 …mercury TWO acetate

An alcohol ….. ( NOT H2O )

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Is Demucuration the same in ether synthesis as it is in alcohol synth?

What is needed

A

Yes.

Na BH4…. Sodium borohydride

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Ethers will react with strong hydrohalic acids in XS to give

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Two alkyl halides

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In the cleavage of an ether with strong hydrohalic acids undergoes what reaction types

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One SN2

One dehydration SN1

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Diphenyl ethers will not undergo what reaction with strong acids

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Cleavage

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What is a protection group

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Lone functional group used to protect a functional group from reactions

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Deprotection is used when

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When the reaction is concluded or when the Protected needs modification

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Epoxidation synthesis reacts what two reactants

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An alkene

MCPBA or proxy acid.

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Epoxides are hydrated to yield

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Anti di-ols

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Epoxides can react with acid and H2O to create diols. What is the other way to use Epoxides to make diols

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1) . Use a hydroxide to attack the least substituted carbon on the Epoxides.
2) protonate the hydroxide

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What type of reactions create Epoxides

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Base promoted cyclist ion of halogens

Epoxidation of alkenes with. MCPBA or peroxy acid

22
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Base promoted cyclization reacts a strong base with what to produce an Epoxides

A

Anti configured alcohalide

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Gringards always attack what carbon on an Epoxides

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Least substituted

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