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Q. Ethyl alcohol cannot be used as a solvent for methyl magnesium iodide because

J & K CETJ & K CET 2010Alcohols Phenols and Ethers

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Methyl magnesium iodide (Grignard reagent) readily gives alkane when reacts with a protonic compound like ethyl alcohol.
$C _{2} H _{5} OH + CH _{3} Mgl \rightarrow \underset{\text{methane}}{CH _{4}}$
Because of the above reason, ethyl alcohol cannot be used as a solvent for methyl magnesium iodide.

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