Problems and exercisesUnimolecular Elimination
1. Substitution and elimination
What products are obtained by heating tert-butyl chloride in methanol?
2. The leaving group
tert-Butyl chloride, bromide and iodide give the same ether/alkene ratio in methanol. Why?
3. Two alkenes
Which alkenes are formed by E1 from 2-bromo-2-methylbutane? Which is the major one?
4. Kinetics
Write the rate law of an E1 reaction and explain its order.