Name the products obtained when hot hydrogen iodide react with benzyl ethyl ether at high temperature?

Ethanol and Benzyl Iodide

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Ethyliodide and Benzyl alcohol

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Ethyliodide and Phenol

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(a) and (b) above.

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Solution

The correct option is A Ethanol and Benzyl Iodide
Ethers can be reactive under drastic reaction conditions (high temperature, high concentration) due to the cleavage of the C-O bond.
In first step of the reaction, protonation of ether $(O)$ group take place.
In second step, $I^{-}$ will undergo $S_{N} 2$ nucleophilic attack.
The reaction of Benzyl ethyl ether is with hot concentrated HI give Ethanol and Benzyl iodide. Hence option (a) is correct. The reaction is as shown below:

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