[narutodemonkill]

If you given a compound which has a 2 degree carbon(s)  1 degree carbon's and a 4th or quatenary degree carbon.


how many products can be formed by monohalogenation?

would it be 2?

[Smrt guy]

If the starting material is 3,3-diethylhexane, yes.

[narutodemonkill]

If the starting material is 3,3-diethylhexane, yes.

what if its 2,2,3-trimethylhexane
monohalo

the methyl on the 3 is still a 1 degree carbon so won't it be similar to forming a halgenation with the first carbon on the chain?

so you do or do not count the halogenation on methyl on the 3 halogenation as an extra product?

[Schrödinger]

what if its 2,2,3-trimethylhexane
monohalo

the methyl on the 3 is still a 1 degree carbon so won't it be similar to forming a halgenation with the first carbon on the chain?

so you do or do not count the halogenation on methyl on the 3 halogenation as an extra product?

The methyl on the 2nd carbon is the same as the 1st carbon, because you can start counting the chain from either methyl.

[Smrt guy]

There are 6 possible points of halogenation on 2,2,3-trimethylhexane.  The Diethyl hexane was chosen because of high symmetry leading to only one primary, secondary, and quaternary carbon (by symmetry relation).