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Predict the major product for the following reaction.

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Predict the major product for the following reaction.

anonymous · Answer

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anonymous · Answer

@Rushwr can you help me figure this out?

anonymous · Answer

thatd be tight thanks

anonymous · Answer

@hartnn

photon336 · Answer

@pmkat14

photon336 · Answer

Let's take a look at this

photon336 · Answer

When we take look at this this is our starting material, now I want us to work through this step by step. @pmkat14 
this is our starting material. 

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anonymous · Answer

sorry i fugured it out
i didnt realize that the oh was attached to a ethyl

anonymous · Answer

but actually, the chlorine would bond to the secondary C due to the presence of more H? and the OH-ETH would go to the tertiary beacause there are more alkyl substituents?

photon336 · Answer

our double bonds contain pi electrons that are mobile, these will act as a nucleophile. 

interestingly enough we see that there's a chlorine, 

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i think chlorine would compete with the alcohol, you could possibly get a mixture 


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