Solvents represent one of the major contributions to the environmental impact of fine‐chemical synthesis. As a result, the use of environmentally friendly solvents in widely employed reactions is a challenge of vast real interest in contemporary organic chemistry. Within this Review, a great variety of examples showing how cyclopentyl methyl ether has been established as particularly useful for this purpose are reported. Indeed, its low toxicity, high boiling point, low melting point, hydrophobicity, chemical stability towards a wide range of conditions, exceptional stability towards the abstraction of hydrogen atoms, relatively low latent heat of vaporization, and the ease with which it can be recovered and recycled enable its successful employment as a solvent in a wide range of synthetic applications, including organometallic chemistry, catalysis, biphasic reactions, oxidations, and radical reactions.

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环戊基甲基醚：古典和现代有机化学中的一种选择性环保醚溶剂

溶剂是精细化学品合成对环境影响的主要贡献之一。因此，在广泛使用的反应中使用环境友好型溶剂是当代有机化学界广泛关注的挑战。在这篇综述中，报道了各种各样的例子，展示了环戊基甲基醚如何被证明特别适用于此目的。事实上，它的低毒性、高沸点、低熔点、疏水性、对多种条件的化学稳定性、对夺取氢原子的优异稳定性、相对较低的汽化潜热以及易于回收和回收使其能够作为溶剂成功应用于各种合成应用，包括有机金属化学、催化、双相反应、氧化和自由基反应。