Decane undergoes thermal cracking to produce compound D and compound E with equal number of carbon atoms. Compound E produces more soot when combustion reaction is carried out. (a) Draw all the possible structures for compound D. (b) Branched-chain compound E reacts with HBr to form major compound F. Compound F is optically active. (i) Outline the mechanism for the reaction. (ii) Draw the product formed when compound E undergoes chlorination reaction.
Organomagnesium compounds
The interaction of alkyl halide with Mg metal in a suitable ether solvent is the common method for the synthesis of the Grignard reagent.
Hydrolysis Grignard Reactions and Reduction
Organomagnesium halides are Grignard reagents. Francois Auguste Victor Grignard, a French chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1912, created these highly useful reagents.
Decane undergoes thermal cracking to produce compound D and compound E with
equal number of carbon atoms. Compound E produces more soot when combustion
reaction is carried out.
(a) Draw all the possible structures for compound D.
(b) Branched-chain compound E reacts with HBr to form major compound F.
Compound F is optically active.
(i) Outline the mechanism for the reaction.
(ii) Draw the product formed when compound E undergoes chlorination
reaction.
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