Assignment:
Q1. Why are the products attached to C3 of 1,4 pentadiene more acidic than the methyl hydrogen atoms of propene?
Q2. Dehydrohalogenation of 1,2-dihalides (with the elimination of two molar equivalents of HX) normally leads to an alkyne rather than to a conjugated diene. However, when 1,2 dibromocyclohexane is dehydrohalogenated, 1,3-cyclohexadiene is produced in good yield. What factor accounts for this?
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