A friend of SWIMS uncle (the uncle belonged to the friend, not SWIM) happens to had a Ph.D in organic chemistry, and as a result had a humungous lab tucked away in storage. Well, due to the uncles passing, the friend let SWIM pay a couple hundred bucks to go through it and take what I wanted (a KILLER deal btw, glassware and chemicals).
Well, one of the chemicals found was aminophenol, aka hydroxyaniline. After using TFSE, SWIM was able to find info on the use of aniline HCl to cleave ethers. The procedure is rather simple, so I have two questions.
First, can hydroxyaniline HCl be used for ether cleavage with decent results?
Which leads me the second question, about usage to cleave the ether on eugenol. Would it work for eugenol?