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Offline Fzang

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What would be the major outcome of this bromination?
« on: January 21, 2011, 01:40:57 PM »


The first product obviously has the two groups farthest away, but could this be considered a "major" product? There's hardly any difference, except for a single C-C distance, which only matters because of a methyl group far away.

So, is this a 50/50 or more like a 60/40?

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Re: What would be the major outcome of this bromination?
« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2011, 06:26:29 PM »
Try using a Furst-Plattner diagram.
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Re: What would be the major outcome of this bromination?
« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2011, 06:32:14 PM »
I'm afraid I've never heard of this before. I started at the university in September last year, so this is way beyond me.

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Re: What would be the major outcome of this bromination?
« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2011, 04:19:50 AM »
Looks first one is major product. But no idea about the ratio. But it will very very close to 1:1 with product number 1 as the major product.

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Re: What would be the major outcome of this bromination?
« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2011, 08:58:32 AM »
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