Etherify (Verb)
Meaning
Change into an ether; "etherify an alcohol".
Classification
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..
Examples
- The chemist carefully measured the compound to etherify the reactant in the solution.
- In organic chemistry, an ether can be formed by etherifying an alcohol with an alkyl halide.
- The process of etherifying the compound involved a series of complex steps.
- Etherify the ethyl alcohol by reacting it with ethyl chloride in the presence of a catalyst.
- During the reaction, the acid completely etherified the hydroxyl group of the glucose molecule.