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Offline r34racer01

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Help w/ Hydrohalogenation Reaction!
« on: November 13, 2008, 11:20:25 PM »
I'm suppose to find the name of the reactant in this hydrohalogenation reaction



I thought it would be just a butene but I guess that's wrong. Can someone help me out please?

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Re: Help w/ Hydrohalogenation Reaction!
« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2008, 11:24:08 PM »
The longest carbon chain you can make is 3, so at best it'd be a propene.

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Re: Help w/ Hydrohalogenation Reaction!
« Reply #2 on: November 14, 2008, 09:57:43 AM »
Yeah think about the mechanism of adding HBr across a double bond. Remember how you name simple branched alkanes. As the previous entry states the longest straight chain is 3 carbons thus the starting material is based on a propane derivative.

Any ideas now?

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Re: Help w/ Hydrohalogenation Reaction!
« Reply #3 on: November 14, 2008, 02:38:48 PM »
and take into account Markovnikov's rule ;)

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