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10.13: Additional Problems

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- 10.12: Organohalides (Summary)
- 11: Reactions of Alkyl Halides- Nucleophilic Substitutions and Eliminations

Sol Parajon Puenzo
Cañada College

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10 • Additional Problems 10

Visualizing Chemistry

Exercise $\PageIndex{14}$

Give IUPAC names for the following alkyl halides (green = Cl):

(a) (b)

Exercise $\PageIndex{15}$

Show the product(s) of reaction of the following alkenes with NBS:

(a) (b). [Image missing]

Exercise $\PageIndex{16}$

The following alkyl bromide can be prepared by reaction of the alcohol (S)-2-pentanol with PBr₃. Name the compound, assign (R) or (S) stereochemistry, and tell whether the reaction of the alcohol results in the same stereochemistry or a change in stereochemistry (reddish brown = Br).

Mechanism Problems

Exercise $\PageIndex{17}$

In light of the fact that tertiary alkyl halides undergo spontaneous dissociation to yield a carbocation plus halide ion (see Problem 10-41), propose a mechanism for the following reaction.

Naming Alkyl Halides

Exercise $\PageIndex{18}$

Name the following alkyl halides:

(a) (b) (c)

(d) (e)

Exercise $\PageIndex{19}$

Draw structures corresponding to the following IUPAC names:

(a) 2,3-Dichloro-4-methylhexane (b) 4-Bromo-4-ethyl-2-methylhexane

Exercise $\PageIndex{20}$

Draw and name all the monochlorination products you might obtain from radical chlorination of the following compounds. Which of the products are chiral? Are any products optically active?

(a) 2-methylbutane (b) methylcyclopropane (c) 2,2-dimethylpentane

Synthesizing Alkyl Halides

Exercise $\PageIndex{21}$

How would you prepare the following compounds, starting with cyclopentene and any other reagents needed?

(a) Chlorocyclopentane (b) Methylcyclopentane (c) 3-Bromocyclopentene (d) Cyclopentanol (e) Cyclopentylcyclopentane (f) 1,3-Cyclopentadiene

Exercise $\PageIndex{22}$

Predict the product(s) of the following reactions:

(a) (b) (c)

(d) (e)

(f) (g)

Exercise $\PageIndex{23}$

A chemist requires a large amount of 1-bromo-2-pentene as starting material for a synthesis and decides to carry out an NBS allylic bromination reaction. What is wrong with the following synthesis plan? What side products would form in addition to the desired product?

Exercise $\PageIndex{24}$

What product(s) would you expect from the reaction of 1-methylcyclohexene with NBS? Would you use this reaction as part of a synthesis?

Exercise $\PageIndex{25}$

What product(s) would you expect from the reaction of 1,4-hexadiene with NBS? What is the structure of the most stable radical intermediate?

Exercise $\PageIndex{26}$

What product would you expect from the reaction of 1-phenyl-2-butene with NBS? Explain.

Oxidation and Reduction

Exercise $\PageIndex{27}$

Rank the compounds in each of the following series in order of increasing oxidation level:

(a)

(b)

Exercise $\PageIndex{28}$

Which of the following compounds have the same oxidation level, and which have different levels?

Exercise $\PageIndex{29}$

Tell whether each of the following reactions is an oxidation, a reduction, or neither:

(a)

(b)

(c)

General Problems

Exercise $\PageIndex{30}$

Arrange the following radicals from most stable to least stable.

(a)

(b) (c)

Exercise $\PageIndex{31}$

Alkylbenzenes such as toluene (methylbenzene) react with NBS to give products in which bromine substitution has occurred at the position next to the aromatic ring (the benzylic position). Explain, based on the bond dissociation energies in Table 6.3.

Exercise $\PageIndex{32}$

Draw resonance structures for the benzyl radical, C₆H₅CH₂·, the intermediate produced in the NBS bromination reaction of toluene (Problem 10-31).

Exercise $\PageIndex{33}$

Draw resonance structures for the following species:

(a)

(b)

(c)

Exercise $\PageIndex{34}$

(S)-3-Methylhexane undergoes radical bromination to yield optically inactive 3-bromo-3-methylhexane as the major product. Is the product chiral? What conclusions can you draw about the radical intermediate?

Exercise $\PageIndex{35}$

Assume that you have carried out a radical chlorination reaction on (R)-2-chloropentane and have isolated (in low yield) 2,4-dichloropentane. How many stereoisomers of the product are formed, and in what ratio? Are any of the isomers optically active? (See Problem 10-34.)

Exercise $\PageIndex{36}$

How would you carry out the following syntheses?

Exercise $\PageIndex{37}$

The syntheses shown here are unlikely to occur as written. What is wrong with each?

(a)

(b) (c)

Exercise $\PageIndex{38}$

Why do you suppose it’s not possible to prepare a Grignard reagent from a bromo alcohol such as 4-bromo-1-pentanol? Give another example of a molecule that is unlikely to form a Grignard reagent.

Exercise $\PageIndex{39}$

The addition of HBr to a double bond with an ether (−OR) substituent occurs regiospecifically to give a product in which the −Br and −OR are bonded to the same carbon. Draw the two possible carbocation intermediates in this electrophilic addition reaction, and explain using resonance why the observed product is formed.

Exercise $\PageIndex{40}$

Identify the reagents a–c in the following scheme:

Exercise $\PageIndex{41}$

Tertiary alkyl halides, R₃CX, undergo spontaneous dissociation to yield a carbocation, R₃C⁺, plus halide ion. Which do you think reacts faster, (CH₃)₃CBr or H₂C $\text{=$ CHC(CH₃)₂Br? Explain.

Exercise $\PageIndex{42}$

Carboxylic acids (RCO₂H; pK_a ≈ 5) are approximately 10¹¹ times more acidic than alcohols (ROH; pK_a ≈ 16). In other words, a carboxylate ion (RCO₂⁻) is more stable than an alkoxide ion (RO⁻). Explain using resonance.

Exercise $\PageIndex{43}$

How might you use a Suzuki–Miyaura reaction to prepare the biaryl compounds below? In each case, show the two potential reaction partners.

(a) (b) (c)

Exercise $\PageIndex{44}$

The relative rate of radical bromination is 1 : 82 : 1640 for 1° : 2° : 3° hydrogens, respectively. Draw all of the monobrominated products that you might obtain from the radical bromination of the compounds below. Calculate the relative percentage of each.

(a) methylcyclobutane (b) 3,3-dimethylpentane (c) 3-methylpentane

Exercise $\PageIndex{45}$

Choose the alcohol from each pair below that would react faster with HX to form the corresponding alkyl halide.

(a) (b) (c)

Exercise $\PageIndex{46}$

Predict the product and provide the entire catalytic cycle for the following Suzuki–Miyaura reactions.

(a)

(b)

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