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Offline Agent-X

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Questions:
The last two molecules are tertiary, right?
Why is one greater? Is it the stereo-chemistry? Strain? What?

I'm not sure. I think it's stereochemistry. The book doesn't say.

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E1 acid-catalyzed dehydration of 3,3-dimethyl-2-butanol alcohol with H2SO4 and heat gives these products and their percentages.

3%: 3,3-dimethyl-1-butene
64%: 2,3-dimethyl-2-butene
33%: 2,3-dimethyl-1-butene
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Re: Why these product percentages for acid-catalyzed de-hydration of alcohol
« Reply #1 on: December 24, 2010, 06:41:57 PM »
always elimination rx go fro the synthesis of non-terminal alkenes. Zaitsev's rule

In elimination reactions the major product is the one in which the maximum number of substituents is attached to the doubly bonded carbons.

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