Question

How will you carry out the following conversion?

Bromoethane to methoxyethane.

Convert the following:

Bromomethane into methoxyethane.

Answer 1

To convert bromoethane to methoxyethane, treat bromoethane with sodium methoxide in dry ethanol.
This results in the substitution of the bromine atom by a methoxy group (–OCH₃), forming methoxyethane.

\[\ce{\underset{Bromoethane}{CH3CH2Br} + \underset{methoxide}{\underset{Sodium}{CH3ONa}} ->\underset{Methoxyethane}{CH3OCH2CH3} + NaBr}\]