Williamson ether synthesis | Organic chemistry | Khan Academy

Two-step synthesis of an ether from an alcohol, A strong base is a dded to deprotonate the alcohol, which then attacks an alkyl halide. Created by Jay.
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Brilliantly explained! Very easy to understand the basic concept! Thank you!

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[@akshitha3115]

Sn2 also depends on nucleophile right? Then if we have a bulky alkoxide it will be less nucleophilic, in that case chances of sn2 should decrease right?

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Nerolin is ethoxy, not methoxy, right?

[@snehalathabaipalli6091]

Is this willimson synthesis? but where as in our text book it is written as alkyl halide reacts with sodium or potassium alkoxide to give a ether.but what u say is quite different from the textbook.Im in confusion

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Have any of you used Numerade?

[@hendhany3021]

if we use 3rx what the mechanism ??

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nice explanation but talk a bit slow

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You spoke rather quickly. It was a bit hard to keep up with you.