Talk:1,4-Dioxane

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superior dissolving power relative to diethyl ether

Ambiguous statement. It's not going to be a superior solvent if the solute is towards the polarity of diethyl ether. E.g. I'm simultaneously reading the LAH article and it's 3 times less soluble in dioxane than it is diethyl ether. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.140.228.208 (talk) 23:50, 10 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Is 1,4-dioxane an aprotic solvent?

Would one consider 1,4-dioxane to be an aprotic solvent? I don't see it specified in the article.
H Padleckas 01:17, 28 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it's considered an aprotic solvent. I'll add that now. ~K 03:17, 28 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

1,3-dioxane in here too?

Should this article cover 1,3-dioxane as well? It seems to me there is not enough material for a separate 1,3-dioxane article. H Padleckas 01:17, 28 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Agree Physchim62 11:39, 29 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

So far I've made this article mostly about 1,4-dioxane, because it is the most used as a solvent out of the three dioxanes. The Table of Properties only covers 1,4-dioxane. The other two dioxanes (1,2-dioxane and 1,3-dioxane) are just mentioned and there is a picture showing the chemical structure of all three dioxanes for comparison. Unless something further develops, I think I will pretty much keep it this way. H Padleckas 04:00, 31 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The Czech page has a good bit about the synthesis of this compound. Anyone care to copy it over?

IUPAC nomenclature

Does anyone know the proper nomenclature for 1,4-dioxane? It can't be the correct IUPAC nomenclature because "1,4-diox" tells you that there are 2 oxygen's placed at 1 and 4, and "ane" tells you that it is an alkane, but there is no mention of how long the alkane is, or if it is cyclic or not.

1,4-Dioxane is proper systematic nomenclature. For most heterocycles, there is a name assigned to it which is not necessarily derived from ring size or other features. Dioxane is just the name for a six-membered ring with two oxygens (and the "ane" part really doesn't have anything to do with alkanes.) For a five-membered ring, it is dioxolane. For seven-membered, it's dioxepane, etc. --Ed (Edgar181) 20:11, 18 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Would it be diethylene diether? --Mark PEA 09:37, 18 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Aroma

In my experience, dioxane doesn't smell anything like ether; is there a source for the statement that it does? The bottle of ACS reagent grade 1,4-dioxane I've worked with had a somewhat fishy odour more reminiscent of amines than of other ethers. There could, of course, be something wrong with my dioxane.

142.157.59.49 (talk) 22:34, 5 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

What do the colours on the graph represent?

The graph should have a legend to indicate the meaning of the coloured lines. 139.57.217.220 (talk) 15:30, 2 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]