How many products are formed by monochlorination of CH3CH2CHFCH3
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4
In monochlorination of hydrocarbon the hydrogen is substituted with chlorine in the presence of sunlight.
In our molecule we have 5 carbons on which the chlorination can take place.
If the chlorination take place on carbon no 1 and 2 the molecule obtained is one and the same and there is no chiral carbon in the molecule so this these both will be the one product of the chlorination.
If the chlorination take place on carbon no 3,4 and 5 we obtain only one chlorinated molecule from each one and there is no chiral carbon in these molecule so these will be the three product of the chlorination.
So total 4 monochloro structural isomers formed. And these will be the position structural isomers as the position of chlorine is changing in the molecules