Question

CAN HF USED TO CLEAVE ETHERS EXPLAIN

Answer 1

Answer:

no

Explanation:

Fluoride is not nucleophilic (having the tendency to donate electrons) enough to allow for the use of HF to cleave ethers in protic media(protic solvents are polar liquid compounds that have dissociable hydrogen atoms). The rate of reaction is comparably low, so that heating of the reaction mixture is required.