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ChemistryALCOHOL & ETHERREACTIONS OF ALCOHOLS and ETHERSHard2 minQB
ChemistryHardsingle choice
Which of the following reaction will not produce given alkene as major product ?

Options:
Answer:
B
Solution:
The required alkene is 1,2-dimethylcyclohexene. Routes A, C and D can reach its skeleton by carbocation rearrangement/ring expansion followed by Zaitsev elimination. Route B, the remotely substituted cyclohexanol, eliminates without relocating the gem-dimethyl carbon into the required adjacent-alkene arrangement. Thus B.
Stream:JEESubject:ChemistryTopic:ALCOHOL & ETHERSubtopic:REACTIONS OF ALCOHOLS and ETHERS
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