MS 904 - Carbocation Drills
Solutions can be seen at mendelset.com/ms/904
Description: This mendel set guides you through everything you have to know about carbocations:
- Ways carbocations form
- Carbocation rearrangements
- How carbocations react (elimination or nucleophilic attack)
Also includes some practice problems: addition to an alkene, dehydration (E1), and substitution (SN1).
Total Problems: 8
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Problem # 331
Rank the carbocations below in order of decreasing stability. (1 = most stable)
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Problem # 332
Each of the carbocations below will spontaneously rearrange. Draw the structure of the expected rearrangement product.
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Problem # 333
Let's go over how a carbocation can form from an alcohol.
Write in the curved arrows to show the formation of the protonated alcohol, and water acting as a leaving group to form a carbocation.
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Problem # 334
Let's go over how a carbocation can form from an alkene.
Use curved arrows to show the two carbocations that can from from 1-methylcyclohexene.
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Problem # 335
Carbocations aren't very stable and so don't last very long after they are formed.
Use curved arrows to show:
a) how a carbocation reacts with a halide ions to form an alkyl halide.
b) how a carbocation reacts with water to form an alcohol.
c) how a carbocation reacts with a base to form an alkene.
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Problem # 336
Predict the product(s) of the reaction below, and used curved arrows to show a mechanism.
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Problem # 337
Predict the product(s) of the reaction below, and used curved arrows to show a mechanism.
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Problem # 341
Predict the product(s) of the reaction below, and used curved arrows to show a mechanism.
