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Chemistry Forums for Students => Organic Chemistry Forum => Topic started by: CLMZ on March 22, 2010, 01:32:11 AM

Title: carbocation stability
Post by: CLMZ on March 22, 2010, 01:32:11 AM

Need help in determining a logical reaction mechanism to explain the formation of the major and minor products for the reaction of alcohol 1 with HBr which gave 3-bromo-2,3-dimethylpentane as the major product and 2-bromo-3,4-dimenthylpentane as the minor product

Title: Re: carbocation stability
Post by: AC Prabakar on April 01, 2010, 09:14:24 AM

It will be helpful if i got the structure of alcohol to reply your question.

Title: Re: carbocation stability
Post by: Dan on April 01, 2010, 11:59:08 AM

I assume the structure of the alcohol is unknown and you need to work its structure out from the products.

CLMZ - Look up 1,2 hydride shifts and carbocation rearrangements, there's tons of stuff on google and in any organic textbook - it's fairly straightforward from there.