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Offline AlphaScent

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Ring Contraction
« on: April 19, 2015, 09:19:37 PM »
Below is a homework question.  When initially I look at it I see a tertiary alcohol.  Treat with some acid and we have a tertiary carbocation.  To get the proper regiochemistry, I have to do a hydride shift to form a secondary carbo cation.

That seems to me to not be favorable. 
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