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Ether is a catalyst so what does a catalyst do?
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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71Athenes, 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.
712. 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.
1Diethyl 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
1Lone pair on Oxygen in C2H5OH forms co-ordinate bond with Mg to stabilize.