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Ethers may be used as solvents because they react only with:

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acids
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bases
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oxidizing agents
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reducing agents
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Solution

The correct option is A acids
Ethers are lewis bases. Therefore, they react with lewis acids such as HCl, BF3 and AlCl3. They are inert towards bases, oxidising and reducing agents.
Hence, ethers can be used as solvents for the reactions in which acids are not formed.

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