Is there anyone really intelligent in brainly to answer the question i ask? WHAT IS A EPOXIDE COMPOUND
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when a ketone group oxygen form ring with 2 carbon,means a cyclic ether is formed
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The strain of the three-membered ring makes an epoxide much more reactive than a typical acyclic ether. Ethylene oxide is economically the most important epoxide and is made from oxidation of ethylene over a silver catalyst. It is used as a fumigantand to make antifreeze, ethylene glycol, and other useful compounds.
More-complex epoxides are commonly made by the epoxidation of alkenes, often using a peroxyacid (RCO3H) to transfer an oxygen atom.

Another important industrial route to epoxides requires a two-step process. First, an alkene is converted to a chlorohydrin, and second, the chlorohydrin is treated with a base to eliminate hydrochloric acid, giving the epoxide; this is the method used to make propylene oxide.

Epoxides are easily opened, under acidic or basic conditions, to give a variety of products with useful functional groups. For example, the acid- or base-catalyzed hydrolysis of propylene oxide gives propylene glycol.

Epoxides can be used to assemble polymers known as epoxies, which are excellent adhesives and useful surface coatings. The most common epoxy resin is formed from the reaction of epichlorohydrin with bisphenol A.

Leroy G. Wade
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More-complex epoxides are commonly made by the epoxidation of alkenes, often using a peroxyacid (RCO3H) to transfer an oxygen atom.

Another important industrial route to epoxides requires a two-step process. First, an alkene is converted to a chlorohydrin, and second, the chlorohydrin is treated with a base to eliminate hydrochloric acid, giving the epoxide; this is the method used to make propylene oxide.

Epoxides are easily opened, under acidic or basic conditions, to give a variety of products with useful functional groups. For example, the acid- or base-catalyzed hydrolysis of propylene oxide gives propylene glycol.

Epoxides can be used to assemble polymers known as epoxies, which are excellent adhesives and useful surface coatings. The most common epoxy resin is formed from the reaction of epichlorohydrin with bisphenol A.

Leroy G. Wade
LEARN MORE in these related Britannica articles:

hydrocarbon: Chemical properties
…customary starting materials from which epoxides, compounds containing a three-membered ring consisting…

hydrocarbon: Reactions
The epoxides that form react with deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), and it is believed that this process is…

alcohol: Using Grignard and organolithium reagents
They also add to epoxides, yielding primary alcohols in which two additional carbon atoms have been added…
ether
Ether, any of a class of organic compounds characterized by an oxygen atom bonded to two…

oxygen
Oxygen (O), nonmetallic chemical element of Group 16 (VIa, or the oxygen group) of the…
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