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Chapter 10: Q8P-a (page 298)

How would you prepare the following alkyl halides from the corresponding alcohols?

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The given compound is 2-chloro,2-methylpropane. It can be prepared as the following way:

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01

Alkyl halides

Alkyl halides are also known as haloalkanes or halogenoalkanes. They contains one or more halogen (-Cl, -Br, -I, -F) atoms. They are derived from alkanes by replacing one or more H-atom from alkanes.

02

Preparation of given compound

Given compound (a) is a tertiary haloalkane. It can be prepared from a tertiary alcohol in presence of HCl/ether.

2-chloro,2-methylpropane is prepared from 2-methyl,prop-2-ol, with the help of HCl/ether.

The reaction is as follows:

Preparation of 2-chloro,2-methylpropane

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