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Title: To covert 2-Chlorobutane to 3,4-Dimethylhexane
Post by: Kin17 on June 25, 2021, 04:45:32 AM: (https://hi-static.z-dn.net/files/dc8/248c9b547d79b896b9cc06a0ec3907fd.jpeg)

Is this answer correct?
Title: Re: To covert 2-Chlorobutane to 3,4-Dimethylhexane
Post by: rolnor on June 25, 2021, 05:21:44 AM: Do you consider sodium amide as a good nucleophile? Is chloride a good leaving group?
Title: Re: To covert 2-Chlorobutane to 3,4-Dimethylhexane
Post by: Kin17 on June 25, 2021, 05:24:31 AM: Quote from: rolnor on June 25, 2021, 05:21:44 AM
Do you consider sodium amide as a good nucleophile? Is chloride a good leaving group?
I really don’t know, but wouldn't sodium amide work here?
Title: Re: To covert 2-Chlorobutane to 3,4-Dimethylhexane
Post by: rolnor on June 25, 2021, 07:39:22 AM: Can you name any good nucleophile?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_amide
Title: Re: To covert 2-Chlorobutane to 3,4-Dimethylhexane
Post by: Babcock_Hall on June 25, 2021, 08:32:05 AM: Elimination can compete with substitution, and this is an issue for secondary and tertiary alkyl halides.
Title: Re: To covert 2-Chlorobutane to 3,4-Dimethylhexane
Post by: rolnor on June 25, 2021, 08:52:05 AM: Yes, but Kin could come to this conlusion with a little help maybe?
Title: Re: To covert 2-Chlorobutane to 3,4-Dimethylhexane
Post by: Kin17 on June 25, 2021, 09:59:33 AM: Quote from: rolnor on June 25, 2021, 08:52:05 AM
Yes, but Kin could come to this conlusion with a little help maybe?
Thank you !
Title: Re: To covert 2-Chlorobutane to 3,4-Dimethylhexane
Post by: Kin17 on June 25, 2021, 10:00:02 AM: Quote from: Babcock_Hall on June 25, 2021, 08:32:05 AM
Elimination can compete with substitution, and this is an issue for secondary and tertiary alkyl halides.
Ohh I see
Title: Re: To covert 2-Chlorobutane to 3,4-Dimethylhexane
Post by: rolnor on June 25, 2021, 11:21:15 AM: Sorry, I mean ethylsodium, not sodium amide!
Title: Re: To covert 2-Chlorobutane to 3,4-Dimethylhexane
Post by: rolnor on June 25, 2021, 11:25:07 AM: I get the impression that you need to read a lot more chemistry before you can solve this kind of problem Kin17 I say this with full respect. One more question, is it possible to make ethylsodium from sodium amide and ethylene?
Title: Re: To covert 2-Chlorobutane to 3,4-Dimethylhexane
Post by: Babcock_Hall on June 25, 2021, 11:48:31 AM: Rolnor,

Do you mean ethane or ethylene?
Title: Re: To covert 2-Chlorobutane to 3,4-Dimethylhexane
Post by: rolnor on June 25, 2021, 12:47:43 PM: Sorry again! I mean ethane. I am celebrating Midsummer here in Sweden, so its a little tipsy from schnaps.