Various hydroxyethyl ethers of d-glucose have been prepared in good yield by treating d-glucose derivatives with 2-bromoethyl tetrahydropyranyl ether in the presence of sodium hydride. The derived O-(hydroxyethyl)-d-glucitol acetates exhibited characteristic mass-spectral fragments. The furanose and pyranose forms of 1,2-O-ethylene-d-glucose derived from 2-O-(2-hydroxyethyl)-d-glucose were identified