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The mechanism for the solvomercuration step of the ether synthesis and the use of solvomercuration-demercuration to prepare tert-butyl methyl ether is to be shown. The reason for the fact that
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Oxymercuration-demercuration: An organic reaction in which the double bonds of
When
When the solvent molecule attack as a nucleophile, then the process is known as solvomercuration-demercuration and the reagent used is
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