JEE Main Chemistry question
Which of the following ethers forms peroxide most readily?
Answer: (C)
Solution
Autoxidation of an ether proceeds through abstraction of an -hydrogen to form a resonance/hyperconjugation-stabilised radical that reacts with oxygen; diisopropyl ether has the most substituted
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