What are examples of a polar, aprotic solvent?

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Apr 30, 2017

Some examples are methylene chloride, diethyl ether, chloroform.......

Explanation:

A polar aprotic solvent is a molecule with significant charge separation (hence a polar solvent) that can be used as a solvent, which does undergo any acid-base equilibrium. And thus water and hydrogen fluoride, while they are certainly polar molecules, do not fall under this umbrella because they are protic, and readily exchange H+ in their solutions.