Chapter 14 Review

What is the general rule about dissolving things?

Rank by dexrease in polarity ethanol, dichloromethane, water, and ethyl ether

When doing organic syntheses, where do you always put the leaving group?

When doing the Williamson synthesis and the alcohol is a phenol, what do you use to form the alkoxide?

When doing an alkoxymercuration-demercuration, what conditions do you use?

Why is bimolecular condensation a poor method for making unsymmetrical ethers?