Examples of them include anisole, THF, and the one cyclic variety used as phase transfer catalysts.
The dinoflagellate Karenia Brevis produces brevetoxin, which has a form of this group. Symmetric ones can be created by dehydrating an alcohol at high temperature in the sulfuric acid process. A cyclic type of this compound can be made by a reaction that goes through the "butterfly mechanism," the Prilezhaev reaction. Another reaction that makes them adds an alkoxide to an alkyl halide. Grignard reagents are made by adding an organic halide to magnesium suspended in this kind of solvent. Examples of them include anisole, THF, and the one cyclic variety used as phase transfer catalysts. A synthesis named for Williamson makes, for 10 points, what class of compounds that has an oxygen singly bonded to two functional groups?
The dinoflagellate Karenia Brevis produces brevetoxin, which has a form of this group.
ethers [accept crown ethers or epoxides]