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Grade 12Organic Chemistry

Sodium metal can be used for drying diethyl ether but jot ethanol. Explain?

Profile image of Sayan Bhowmik
9 Years agoGrade 12
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Profile image of Vikas TU
9 Years ago
Due to less reactive than the alcohols ethers have not the power of doing so.
Alcohols have the -OH attached with most electronegative atom Oxygen which leads the reaction and forms the sodium ethoxide and with the liberatio  H2 gas.

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