Heating an alcohol with sulfuric acid a good way to prepare a symmetrical ether

Question

Heating an alcohol with sulfuric acid a good way to prepare a symmetrical ether such as diethyl ether. Explain why is not a good way to prepare an unsymmetrical ether such as propyl ether. Match the words in the left column to the appropriate blanks in the sentence on the right. more than half R'OH three two ROR' none ROH less than half all four To synthesize an unsymmetrical ether by this method, two different alcohols (ROH and) have to be heated with sulfuric acid. Therefore, different ethers would be obtained as products. Consequently, of the total amount of ether that is synthesized would be the desired ether.

Explanation / Answer

To synthasize an unsymmetrical ether ROR' ,by this method two different alcohols ROH and R'OH have to be heated with sulphuric acid.Therefore three different ethers would be obtained as products. Consequently none of the total amount of ether that is synthesized would be the desired ether.

Here three types of ethers ROR,R'OR' and ROR' are formed in very less amounts.

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