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Questions
How will you prepare diethyl ether by dehydration of alcohol?
How will you convert the following? (Write a chemical equation.)
Diethyl ether from ethyl alcohol.
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Solution
Diethyl ether can be prepared by dehydration of ethanol by H2SO4 at 413 K.
\[\ce{\underset{\text{Ethanol}}{2C2H5OH} ->[H2SO4/413 K][-H2O] \underset{\text{Diethyl ether (Ethoxyehtane)}}{C2H5 - O - C2H5}}\]
Notes
Students should refer to the answer according to their questions.
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