Alcohols cannot be used as a solvent for grignards reagent. Why?
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Alcohols (and other similar compounds having active hydrogen in their molecules) readily decompose Grignard reagents to respective alkanes and so they cannot be used as solvents for the latter. ... This is because of the moderately acidic nature of the Hydrogen of the alcohol..the carbanion part of the G.R.
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The alcohol contains an alkyl and –OH group. ... - Due to formation of respective alkane by Grignard reagent upon reaction with alcohol, alcohols cannot be used as solvent for Grignard's reagent. Therefore, diethyl ether or tetrahydrofuran is the suitable solvent for Grignard reagent.
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