Why do ethers and phenylene sulfones resist hydrolisis?
This question can be easily answered if you know the structures of ether and polysulfones
General structure of ether is R-O-R
Ethers are rather nonpolar due to the presence of an alkyl group on either side of the central oxygen. The presence of the bulky alkyl groups that are adjacent to it means that the oxygen atom is largely unable to participate in hydrogen bonding. That's why they resist hydrolysis.
phenylene sulphones are a type of polysulphones so I am discussing in general
From structure we see that it has ether bonds due to these it resist hydrolysis. Same reasoning can be presented here as above
I hope you get it
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