Hint:Identify all nucleophiles and electrophiles in this reaction. The overall r

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Hint:Identify all nucleophiles and electrophiles in this reaction. The overall result of the three-step process will be an elimination.

o 5/8/2015 1 1:55 PM O 93/1004/29/2015 12:45 AM -Print Calculator-d Periodic Table Gradebook Question 20 of 30 Organic Chemistry Roberts Company Publishers Sapling Leaming Marc Loudon Predict the organic product(s) for the following reaction. 1. Excess CH3 2. Ag20 3. heat Previous O Check Answer Next Exit Y Hint Identify all nucleophiles and electrophiles in this reaction. The overall result of the three-step process will be an elimination.

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Answer: This is Hofmann elimination reaction, in which amines are converted in to an alkenes by E2 reaction mechanism. It occurs with non-Zaitsev regiochemistry to form the least highly substituted double bond. In this reaction mechanism electrofile is CH3+ and nucleophile is OH-

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