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Drawing Newman Projection for E2 anti-periplanarity
« on: August 04, 2016, 01:38:49 AM »
http://image.prntscr.com/image/0aa63ccd998c4ead94cbfd4eabd71084.png Problem

Can someone go over my work and tell me how I'm getting the wrong major product? And why the cis isomer of one of the minor products doesn't exist?

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Re: Drawing Newman Projection for E2 anti-periplanarity
« Reply #2 on: August 04, 2016, 03:21:51 AM »
So I looked at the minor products again and it appears that the minor products I was getting confused about are the same, because that alkene does not exhibit E/Z isomerism.

Also I think I have the Newman projection figured out. The methyl shifts to the position of the hydrogen but I was drawing it in the position of the bromine so that methyl group was wrong.

Thanks for the help.

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Re: Drawing Newman Projection for E2 anti-periplanarity
« Reply #3 on: August 19, 2016, 12:14:53 AM »
When doing this sort of problem, a $20 model kit is worth gold.

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