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Offline DannyBoi

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What did I get wrong?
« on: January 26, 2011, 03:25:28 PM »
I submitted a homework question online and this is the result:



Can it be clarified what I was missing?

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Re: What did I get wrong?
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2011, 03:32:13 PM »
Could it have been the Hydrogens? I was under the assumption that they were implicit but maybe now I do remember my book displaying them to clarify the E/Z isomerism nomenclature. :S

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Re: What did I get wrong?
« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2011, 07:06:13 PM »
There is a 4th isomer I was able to come up with.  All of your answers are Z isomers and appear to be correct.  The only thing I can think of is that it wants the vinylic bromine (attached to the double bond) so your (Z)-1-bromo-2-butene structure is the one that its counting as wrong (though the geometry is Z). 

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