Predict the major product formed when sodium ethoxide reacts with tert.Butyl chloride.
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Ethyl-t-Butyl
Explanation:
This reaction is known as Williamson ether synthesis. For this reaction will specifically give Ethyl-t-Butyl ether and sodium chloride via SN1 mechanism.
The forming of the cation within the SN1 system is the rate-determining step. Well into the better sense; a carbocation is an unstable entity and thus it will be generated gradually from a stable organic neutral molecule, but once produced, being really reactive, all its transformations will be fast, irrespective of the nucleophile.
T-BuBr's rate of vanishing is simply the rate of the slow first move. nucleophilic hydroxide is not active in this process and does not exist in the rate equation, and therefore can not influence the rate.
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