Assembled simple distillation apparatus. Dried in receiving flask with MgSO4. See Attached spectrum. See attached plots. The higher value may indicate that some of the butanol starting material may have co-distilled.
Infrared results are consistent with the planned ether.
The t-butyl group sterically hinders the propoxide ion from displacing the chloride from the substituted carbon. Elimination would predominate. 50 Reagents name structure b.p.