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What are the products of an addition reaction of 2bromobutane with sodium methoxide?

We havn’t covered addition reactions without double bonds and its in the assignment. Any help would be much appreciated thanks!
thats why i can’t work it out. its the third question with the same reactants…i’v already done elimination and nucleophilic substitution

Seems like it would be an elimination reaction instead. Methoxide is a strong base, so it would deprotonate 2-bromobutane.

The two possible products are trans-2-butene and 1-butene.

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One Response to “What are the products of an addition reaction of 2bromobutane with sodium methoxide?”

  1. Dynamic Fetch Says:
    October 31st, 2009 at 1:24 pm

    Seems like it would be an elimination reaction instead. Methoxide is a strong base, so it would deprotonate 2-bromobutane.

    The two possible products are trans-2-butene and 1-butene.
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