What are examples of a "polar, aprotic solvent"?

1 Answer
Apr 30, 2017

Some examples are "methylene chloride", "diethyl ether", "chloroform......."

Explanation:

A polar aprotic solvent is a molecule with significant charge separation (hence a "polar solvent") that can be used as a solvent, which does undergo any acid-base equilibrium. And thus water and hydrogen fluoride, while they are certainly polar molecules, do not fall under this umbrella because they are protic, and readily exchange H^+ in their solutions.