Selectivity in Free Radical Reactions: Bromination vs. Chlorination
The Selectivity of Free-Radical Bromination vs Chlorination. A Detailed Answer In last blog post on radicals we saw this data that compares the chlorination of
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Halogenation At Tiffany’s
Thinking Through The Selectivity of Bromination vs Chlorination: An Intuitive Analogy As we discussed in the last post on radicals, bromine radicals are considerably more
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Halogenation of Alkynes With Cl2, Br2, and I2 Last time we discussed the similarities (and differences) between the carbocation pathway for alkenes and alkynes. In
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Bromination Of Alkenes: The Mechanism How does bromination of alkenes work? In the previous post we showed how the mechanism for bromination of alkenes can’t
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