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ELIMINATION REACTIONS
(Quiz 7-1)

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1. What is the major organic product obtained from the following reaction?

(A) 1

(B) 2

(C) 3

(D) 4

 

2. What is the major organic product obtained from the following reaction?

(A) 1

(B) 2

(C) 3

(D) 4

 

3. What is the major organic product obtained from the following reaction?

(A) 1

(B) 2

(C) 3

(D) 4

 

4. What is the major elimination product obtained from the following reaction?

 

(A) 1

(B) 2

(C) 3

(D) 4

 

5. What is the major organic product obtained from the following reaction?

(A) 1

(B) 2

(C) 3

(D) 4

 

6. Which of the following energy diagrams represents the course of an exothermic E1 reaction?

(A) 1

(B) 2

(C) 3

(D) 4

 

7. What is the best choice of reagent to perform the following transformation?

(A) H2SO4

(B) H2O

(C) NaOCH3

(D) KOtBu

 

8. What type of reaction mechanism accounts for the reaction of an alkene with HBr to give an alkyl bromide?

(A) H2SO4

(B) H2O

(C) NaOCH3

(D) KOtBu

 

9. Which of the following represents the transition state of the rate-determining step in the elimination reaction of 2-bromopropane with hydroxide?

(A) 1

(B) 2

(C) 3

(D) 4

 

10. Which of the following concepts explains Zaitzev’s rule as applied to the base-promoted elimination of HCl from 2-chlorobutane?

(A) the relative stability of carbocations

(B) the relative stability of alkenes

(C) the acidity of HCl

(D) the Aufbau principle