Understand the chemical properties, uses ... Become familiarized with newer alternative and complementary syntheses and reactions of ethers, sulfides, and epoxides. Characterize ethers by comparisons ...

If we had to do merely with the ether that fills the interplanetary space and conveys energy through it, we could confine our attention to the mass and neglect the chemical nature of the ether.

Van Wazer, J., Callis, C. F., Shoolery, J. N., and Jones, R. C., J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 74, 5715 (1956).

Reactivity: Alcohols can undergo various chemical reactions ... (HX), making them useful in various synthetic paths. Formation of Ethers: Alcohols can undergo condensation reactions to form ethers.