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Organic Chemistry
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Author: John E. McMurry
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 8.1, Problem 1P
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Given that treatment of 2-bromo-2-methylbutane with KOH in ethanol yields a mixture of two alkenes as product. The likely structures of the two alkenes are to be given.

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In dehydrohalogenation reactions removal of hydrogen halide takes place. The hydrogen is usually removed from the carbon adjacent to the carbon bearing the halogen (from β carbon). If the alkyl halide has hydrogen on more than one β carbon with a different substituent then hydrogen can be eliminated from all of them leading to a mixture of different alkenes.

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The likely structures of the two alkenes that result when 2-bromo-2-methylbutane react with KOH in ethanol.

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