Williamson ether experiments are
commonly performed by students
in undergraduate organic chemistry instructional laboratory courses.
In this multioutcome experiment, students were provided 4-bromophenol
and one of three alkyl halides: 1-bromopentane, 1-bromobutane, or
1-bromo-3-methylbutane. The alkyl halides served as the unknown component
of the experiment, and students were given these three as unknown
candidates. After isolating the product from the reaction mixture,
students analyzed their products using FT-IR and benchtop 1H NMR spectroscopies. The experimental results herein summarize the
inclusion of this experiment in the large enrollment second-semester
organic chemistry laboratory course over four semesters.
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