Using your old and new reaction roadmaps as a guide, show how to convert ethane into 1- butanol. You must use ethane as the source of all carbon atoms in the target molecule. Show all reagents and all molecules synthesized along the way.

Ethane can be converted into 1- butanol in 4 different steps and reactions.

Explanation:

Step 1 : Ethane follows Markovnikov's rule and reacts with a protic acid called Hydrogen chloride to form Chloroethane.

Step 2: Chloroethane undergoes Wurtz reaction where it reacts with sodium metal in the presence of dry ether to form an higher alkane called butane.

Step 3: Butane undergoes chlorination where it reacts with an halogen called chlorine to form 1-chlorobutane.

Step 4: 1-chlorobutane reacts strong aqueous Potassium hydroxide (KOH) to form 1-butanol.

Attached to this answer is the handwritten conversion of Ethane to 1-butanol showing all the reagents and molecules synthesized along the way.

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