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Chapter 10: Q10-25E-e (page 308)

How would you prepare the following compounds, starting with cyclopentene and any other reagents needed? (e) Cyclopentylcyclopentane.

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Cyclopentylcyclopentane can be formed in the following way:

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Step-by-step solutionStep 1: Bromination of cyclopantene

It means substitution of one hydrogen from the reactant, so that bromine group can be added there.

The reaction is as follows:

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Reduction

Alkyl halides are also known as haloalkanes or halogenoalkanes. They contains one or more halogen substituents i.e. –Br, -Cl,-I,-F.

Bromo cyclopentane is reduced to cyclopentyl lithium, in presence of lithium and pentane.

The reaction is as follows:

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Preparation of cyclopentylcyclopentane

The desired product cyclopentylcyclopentane can be prepared in following way:

The overall reaction is:

Preparation of cyclopentylcyclopentane

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Most popular questions from this chapter

Draw structures corresponding to the following IUPAC names: (d) 1,1-Dibromo-4-isopropylcyclohexane.

In light of the fact that tertiary alkyl halides undergo spontaneous dissociation to yield a carbocation plus halide ion (see Problem 10-45), propose a mechanism for the following reaction.

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

(a) 2-methylbutane

(b) Methylcyclopropane

(c) 2,2-dimethylpentane

Sort the radicals below from most stable to least stable.

Name the following alkyl halides:
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