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Isopentane chlorine substitution reaction
« on: February 16, 2020, 02:13:49 PM »
Hello everyone,,
I have a question. Lets say we have isopentane and Cl2 in a substitution reaction. How many different Carbon atoms can chlorine atom bond with? All five or can it substitute with a hydrogen that bonded to methyl brach?

It is an easy question maybe but please answer that is really important for me.

Thanks for your consideration..

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Re: Isopentane chlorine substitution reaction
« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2020, 02:35:55 PM »
It can bond with all of them and also several times until all hydrogen is exchanged. It will start with the second C.

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Re: Isopentane chlorine substitution reaction
« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2020, 03:21:57 PM »
For reasons you can look up elsewhere, free radical chlorination is usually "non-selective".  That means there are significant amounts of all possible products.

Isopentane gives 4 different monochlorination products - do you know why there are not 5?

There are many many more dichlorinationand, trichlorination products and so on. 

If you use a sufficient excess of chlorine you can end up with the perchloro product - all H's replaced with Cl.

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