Carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) is an aprotic solvent.

3. “Protic” Solvents Have O-H or N-H Bonds And Can Hydrogen-Bond With Themselves. “Aprotic” Solvents Cannot Be Hydrogen Bond Donors

1. Protic solvents have O-H or N-H bonds.
2. Aprotic solvents may have hydrogens on them somewhere, but they lack O-H or N-H bonds, and therefore cannot hydrogen bond with themselves.

Polar protic solvents are water, ethanol, methanol, ammonia, acetic acid, and others. Polar aprotic solvents contain no hydrogen atoms connected directly to an electronegative atom and they are not capable of hydrogen bonding.

Aprotic solvents include toluene, cyclohexane, and other aliphatic or aromatic solvents that do not contain acidic or basic groups (i.e., proton-generating functionalities).

Description. Protic solvents are capable of hydrogen bonding because they contain at least one hydrogen atom connected directly to an electronegative atom (such as O-H or N-H bonds). Aprotic solvents contain no hydrogen atoms connected directly to an electronegative atom and they are not capable of hydrogen bonding.

chemically inert

Protic and aprotic solvents Polar protic solvents are water, ethanol, methanol, ammonia, acetic acid, and others. Polar aprotic solvents contain no hydrogen atoms connected directly to an electronegative atom, and they are not capable of hydrogen bonding. These are acetone, dimethyl sulfoxide, DMF etc.

of a solvent. : incapable of acting as a proton donor.

An aprotic solvent is a solvent that has no O-H or N-H bonds. The “a” means “without”, and “protic” refers to protons or hydrogen atoms. The specific meaning of aprotic is that the molecules have no H atoms on O or N.

The SN2 Is Favored By Polar Aprotic Solvents. The SN1 reaction tends to proceed in polar protic solvents such as water, alcohols, and carboxylic acids, which stabilize the resulting (charged) carbocation that results from loss of the leaving group. These also tend to be the nucleophiles for these reactions as well.