Problems and exercisesReactivity

1. Why don’t they react?

Ethyl bromide reacts with NaI in acetone, but ethanol does not. Why?

2. How to activate the OH

Give three ways of turning the OH into a good leaving group.

3. The four reactions

Match each transformation of 1-propanol with the type of reaction:

1. → propanal
2. → propene
3. → 1-bromopropane
4. → propyl acetate