Ether properties?

[rlweb]

Ether properties?

 

Does anyone know about its endothermic and exothermic reactions?

 

I'm kind of new here. So hi.

[Kaeroll]

You need to provide more information. I assume by ether you mean diethyl, but which reactions did you have in mind? I feel a complete rundown of ether reactivity is beyond the scope of this forum.

 

Kaeroll

[rlweb]

Well I'm interested in its cooling properties.

[CaptainPanic]

Well I'm interested in its cooling properties.

 

What Kaeroll means is that an "ether" is a component in which there exists C-O-C bond.

This can therefore be:

 

CH3-O-CH3

CH3-O-CH2-CH3

CH3-O-CH2-CH2-CH3

CH3-CH2-O-CH2-CH3

CH3-CH2-O-CH2-CH2-CH3

 

etc, etc, etc. Much more complex ethers exist, as you will find on wikipedia! (Scroll down a bit).

 

This is a science forum after all, so this means we should be complete and thorough... this includes using complete and correct names for chemicals.

 

But let me be kind to new people. You most likely want information about the cooling properties of diethyleteher (The CH3-CH2-O-CH2-CH3 ether)... right?

 

So, you are now looking or endothermic or exothermic reactions with diethylether. Perhaps using the right name can help you on google/wikipedia? I'm not sure though.

 

Since your question pretty much includes all reactions with diethyl ether (and there are probably millions!), I suggest that you still refine your question a bit more! Because as Kaeroll said: we just cannot give you a complete summary of all the reactions - there are too many!

 

What do you want to achieve? What is the problem that you need to solve?

 

Personally, I would think that