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Title: Zaitsev's rule
Post by: tehmoe on October 27, 2009, 09:54:53 PM
I know that Zaitsev's rule says that the major product in Elimination will always be the one that is more highly substituted, however, how can you tell what is more substituted? I know this might be an easy answer, but i'm just not sure on how this works. If someone could explain it to me that would be awesome.

thanks in advanced,
-tehmoe
Title: Re: Zaitsev's rule
Post by: eureka123 on October 27, 2009, 10:30:25 PM
More substituted means Hydrogen is substitued by some other group like alkyl or any other functional group