10.10 Predict all the alkenes that would be formed by dehydrohalogenation of the following halides with sodium ethoxide in ethanol and identify the major alkene:
(iii) 2,2,3-Trimethyl-3-bromopentane
(iii)
In this compound we have two type of - hydrogen thus dehalogenation we get two types of products namely 3, 4, 4-Trimethylpent-2-ene and 2-Ethyl-3,3-dimethylbut-2-ene.
and
Here 3, 4, 4-Trimethylpent-2-ene will be major product, since the - hydrogen attached to the double bond are greater.