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EDIT: So hey I just installed Brink (skidrow ofc) pretty crap isnt it?
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ethanol + butanal (in a concentrated H2SO4 solution).. how do these react with eachoter.. pls tell me someone :DD
I've already searched on google and didn't find anything that could help me with it
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is héél lang geleden maar ethanol en buthanol zijn beide brandstoffe en H2So4 is extreem zure omgeving dus ik vermoed dat...
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?

het is trouwens butanAl en niet butanOl
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must be a Sn2
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je bedoelt van een alcohol naar een ether gaan door een substitutie2 ? Dan heb je 2 alcoholen nodig he.. ik heb het over ethanol en butanAL
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je hebt altijd meer dan 1 alcohol nodig...
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ik heb het niet over scheikundige shit sherlock:P
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Sn2 are between a nucleophile and an electrophile. but if the electrophile is a carbonyl or carboxyl, then it is called "nucleophilic substitution reaction on carboxyl/carbonyl"
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alcohol and aldehydes with acid catalysis usually form structures like R-CH(OH)-OR but in since concentrated H2SO4 is also a dehydrating agent, it could form an ether, but I am still not fully convinced of my own idea :D
will check it by literature

e : checked now the literature.
if the ethanol is stoichiometric, a hemiacetal is formed.
if the ethanol is in excess, an acetal is formed.

so here I would say an acetal is formed.
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I'm guessing that my teacher made a mistake while typing out and that the butanal is supposed to be butanol cause that would make sense.. 2 alcohol's together in an acid solution form an ether
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hmm ok gonna read what you typed and try to understand :D

brb
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hmm I just checked my book again and I think I skipped the essential part :D but that's because the teacher told us not to learn that stuff. (my exam question is from a few years ago so that makes sense).

So after reading I think that this should be the answer:

Butanal ->(reduction) forms an alcohol

so then we just have ethanol + the formed alcohol wich will make an ether since we are working in an acid solution

I guess that's how it works?
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i agree that 2 alcohols form an ether under acid catalysis, but the trick here is the concentrated sulphuric acid, which is a hygroscopic and oxydizing acid. It keeps the water away from the reaction.
what I dont get is the "butanal -> (reduction)" part. If an aldehyde is treated with a nucleophile it becomes an alcohol (reduced version), BUT it is not reduced if the nucleophile is an O-nucleophile, because the oxidation number is depending on the substituents attached to the carbonyl-C. if a double bond to an oxygen atom is transformed to two single bonds to two oxygen atoms, the oxidation number doesnt change.

In your example, there is no reducing agent present and when the acetale is formed it should have the same oxydation number on the "carbonyl"-C than before.

e: I can post the mechanics of the reaction if you like :)
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nice life
brink never heard of it
14:37 here.
12:37 sorry man
Posted by h20xyg3n on Wednesday 15th June 2011, 14:37

derp :|
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Posted by h20xyg3n on Wednesday 15th June 2011, 12:37 GMT
yeah he lives in GMT +1 THANK YOU FOR KNOWING TIME DIFFRENCES
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wtf means 1337?
i hope this is a troll :s
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He's a cancer Polak, what you'd expect?
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eheh wannabe polak says that
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I'm not a wannabe Polak, I just fuck yo bitches! :D!
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in wich city do u live?
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It's called "I fuck Polish bitches", you won't know it.
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yeh i heard about your right hand
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really its hard to write?
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wtf means 1337?
Wtf means leet???????
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Nice troll buddy.
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For fucks sake, get crapped on already!
Posted by h20xyg3n on Wednesday 15th June 2011, 14:37
brink could have been so goodbut it wasnt
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