00:01
Hi, so over here what we want to do is to generate an ether starting from two, sorry i forgot here nh, starting from two alcohols.
00:12
So in order to do so, let's think about ways that we can prepare an ether, and one of the methods that we can employ is going to be a williamson ether synthesis, which is going to require a phenoxide plus alkyl alide.
00:37
So in this case we would generate r o minus plus x r2 that would produce r o r2 where r and r2 are two different substituents that we're going to get.
01:03
So in this case what we're going to do is the first step is going to be to convert ethanol into an alkyl alide which is one of the required so in order to do so, we're going to employ ethanol with a strong acid, hbr for example, which would produce bromoethane.
01:40
A second potential step for our reaction would be the generation of the phenoxide ion.
01:46
In this case, we're going to have our benzene, sorry, our phenol plus a strong base such as sodium hydroxide.
01:55
We could employ any other strong base in order to generate the correct result.
01:59
And actually, since we may have more efficient bases, let's just put it over here as a generic plus a strong base, which would generate the phenoxide ion...