Problems and exercisesHydrolysis of Geminal Dihalides
1. From ethylbenzene to acetophenone
What is obtained when ethylbenzene is treated with two equivalents of NBS (light or peroxides) and then with aqueous NaOH?
2. Aldehyde or ketone?
Which carbonyl compound is obtained by this method from toluene? And from 3-methylcyclohexene?