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The Hive => Methods Discourse => Topic started by: droneRx on May 01, 2002, 03:23:00 AM

Title: Distillation Question
Post by: droneRx on May 01, 2002, 03:23:00 AM

Do any of you bees know if the methoxy in 1-methoxy-2-propanol can bee refluxed with phenyl and then distilled to extract phenyl-2-propanol?

Title: Huh?
Post by: Chromic on May 01, 2002, 04:06:00 PM

>1-methoxy-2-propanol can bee refluxed with phenyl and then distilled to extract phenyl-2-propanol?

No, that's not possible. I haven't heard of a chemical called "phenyl" btw. It's a group just like "methoxy" and is always attached to something else. Methoxy groups don't make good leaving groups, so they're hard to substitute with other groups.