Sunday, April 15, 2018

organic chemistry - Reduction of alkyl halides to alkanes


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For all the three parts, only methane has been given as the product in my textbook.


In 1) and 2), according to the mechanism I wrote, I get both ethane and methane as products. I think both these products should be formed in good yield. Then, why my products do not match?


In 3) , I got methane as the only product as given in the textbook. Can you please check the mechanism?enter image description here




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