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Offline tomhall15

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Elimination Reactions!
« on: October 29, 2010, 02:59:57 PM »
Hey :) so i have a question...when doing elimination reactions how do we know which hydrogen to take off along with the leaving group?? thankss

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Re: Elimination Reactions!
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2010, 05:12:15 PM »


   Take off the synperiplanar or antiperiplanar. Anti is better.
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Re: Elimination Reactions!
« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2010, 08:47:22 PM »
Yeah, I usually take off the antiperiplannar first and then go on from there.

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Re: Elimination Reactions!
« Reply #3 on: November 15, 2010, 11:20:42 PM »
I've never even heard of those terms. 

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