SOME COMMON NONAQUEOUS SOLVENTS
Although water is used as a solvent more extensively than any other liquid, other solvents may offer some important advantages. For example, if any base stronger than OH is placed in water, it reacts with water to produce OH. If it is necessary to use a stronger base than OH in some reaction, the best way is to use a solvent that is more basic than water because the anion from that solvent will be