Organic Chemistry
How to prepare butanol from ethyl magnesium bromide? ????
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Arun
Approved Tutor Answer8 Years agoDear student
This is a little tricky; you can't get 1-butanol by using ethyl magnesium bromide to attack a carbonyl, because the -OH group ends up in the wrong place. You need to attack something else: an epoxide.
A Grignard will open an epoxide ring, giving an anionic oxygen that can be protonated. If you attack ethylene oxide, also called oxirane, with ethyl magnesium bromide, you'll get 1-butanol.
A Grignard will open an epoxide ring, giving an anionic oxygen that can be protonated. If you attack ethylene oxide, also called oxirane, with ethyl magnesium bromide, you'll get 1-butanol.
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Arun (askIITians forum expert)
S.G PANDA
Sir thank u thank u very much... Now i can solve this one by using epoxide and hydrolysing the product... hats off sir...
Vishal Jagwani
Approved Tutor Answer8 Years agoReact it with ethanal in presence of dry ether. Further on treating with H2O and dil HCl,it will form butanol and MgBrOHGood luck!!
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