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

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

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Vikas TU
14149 Points
7 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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