Why does Zinc chloride does not attack the tertiary carbon in carbon compounds.
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lucas regent is a formula of of anhydrous zinc chloride (Lewis acid) in concentrated hydrochloric acid. It is used as a reagent to test alcohols and classify them in accordance to their reactivity. The reaction is a substitution reaction where the chloride of the zinc chloride gets replaced by the hydroxyl group of the alcohol.
The reactivity of the alcohol with Lucas Reagent is measured by the degree of turbidity which may vary from colorless to turbid. The formation of turbid solution happens due to the formation of chloroalkane.
This experiment was done in 1930. Since then, it is utilized as a standard technique in organic chemistry experiments. But now this method is not widely used as large number of spectroscopic and chromatographic analytical methods have replaced it.
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