Question

ALKANES
the given compounds are monochlorinated racemi
1. When the given c
(b) n-butane
mixture is formed from
(a) neo-pentane
(c) 2,3-dimethylbutane
(d) 2,2,3,3-tetramethylbutane.​

Answer 1

Explanation:

Last time we covered a comparatively simple reaction: free-radical chlorination of methane to (CH4) to give chloromethane (CH3Cl) and saw that the reaction proceeds through three stages – initiation (where free radicals are created), propagation (the main “product-forming” step of the chain reaction, where a chloroalkane is created without net formation of new free radicals) and termination (where radicals combine, resulting in a net reduction of the number of free radicals).

There’s one simple extension of this reaction I’d like to cover in this post. We just covered the simple molecule CH4. What happens when we move beyond CH4 to the monochlorination