Organic initial

1) Why ether is used in preparing Grignard's Reagent?

2) C6H12 (A) has chirality but on hydrogenation A is converted into C6H14( B) in which the chirality disappears. Write the IUPAC name of A.

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Athenes Analyst ·

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Ether is a catalyst so what does a catalyst do?

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Vivek @ Born this Way ·

Athenes, Please Don't make posts without any suitable logic/workings.

1. Sigma. I had made a post on that some time ago. Would you please search for that.

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Vivek @ Born this Way ·

2. For the given compound DU = 14-12/2 = 1

So, there could be a Double bond or a Ring. Now We need un saturation .... Try next yourself.

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rishabh ·

2) 3-methyl pent-1-ene.

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Athenes Analyst ·

Diethyl ether is a good solvent for the formation of Grignard reagents because ethers are non-acidic (aprotic). Water or alcohols would protonate and thus destroy the Grignard reagent, because the Grignard carbon is highly nucleophilic. This would form a hydrocarbon. But Grignard reagents are stable in ethers.

Sorry Vivek and Sigma and this post is my Atonement

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Aritra Chakrabarti ·

Lone pair on Oxygen in C2H5OH forms co-ordinate bond with Mg to stabilize.

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