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

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 $H C l$ , $B F_{3}$ and $A l C l_{3}$ . 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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