Organic Chemistry
Improve your experience by picking them
The dehydration of 2-(tert-butyl)-3,3-dimethylbutane-1,2-diol, a vicinal diol, in an acidic solution produces only one product.
Why is there only one product?
Write a plausible mechanism for the following reaction:
Note that acid-catalyzed alcohol dehydrations usually go through the E1 mechanism. Rearrangements commonly take place.
For E1 and E2 reactions, which between 3-chlorocyclopent-1-ene and chlorocyclopentane would react faster?
What is the major product when the following alkyl halide undergoes an E1 reaction?
What is(are) the possible product(s) of the rearrangement-prone E1 reaction shown below?
What is the product obtained from the following alkyl halide when it undergoes an E1 reaction?
What products will be formed in the following E1 reaction?
What is the reaction mechanism for the E1 reaction shown below?
State the bond(s) formed and broken in the elimination reaction given below.
Using electron-pushing arrows, illustrate the mechanism for the E1 reaction shown below.
Draw a suitable mechanism for the E1 reaction shown below.
Propose the possible mechanism for the elimination reaction shown below.
What is the corresponding E1 mechanism for the given reaction?
What is the product of the given E1 reaction that is prone to rearrangement?
What is the product of the following E1 reaction, which is susceptible to rearrangement?
Show the mechanism for the following E1 reaction.
For the following elimination reaction, give the mechanism.
Draw the mechanism for the given E1 reaction.
What is the electron-pushing mechanism for the elimination reaction given below?
Determine how the (i) strength and (ii) concentration of the base affects E1 reactions. How about the (iii) solvent?
Determine the compound that produces a faster E1 reaction.
Provide the major products of the reaction of the alkyl halides below via the E1 mechanism.