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The Hive => Chemicals & Equipment => Topic started by: Sektor7G on February 05, 2002, 09:00:00 PM

Title: Butoxyethanol
Post by: Sektor7G on February 05, 2002, 09:00:00 PM

I was rumbleing through the shed out back today and ran across this chemical called Butoxyethanol. I was wandering if its usefull in any rxn's?

Title: Re: Butoxyethanol
Post by: Rhodium on February 06, 2002, 03:01:00 AM

It might be of use as a washing solvent, but nothing else in particular.

Title: Not at all?
Post by: SpicyBrown on January 26, 2003, 11:22:00 PM

Recently came across the same stuff and saw in merck that it is miscible with water. If one was pursuing a reaction that generally called for THF/water or DMF/water as solvent system, and terminal alcohols weren't an issue for the reaction, couldn't it be used in place of THF or DMF?

Could be being completely ignorant here. Part of the reasoning comes from seeing ethylene glycol monomethyl ether being used in rxns.

-SpicyBrown

Title: glymes
Post by: Rhodium on January 27, 2003, 07:37:00 PM

Another name for it would be ethyleneglycol monobutyl ether, so it should behave analogous to the monomethyl ether. Not many rxns call for that one though.