Problem based on monochlorinated products


The chlorination of pentane gives a mixture of three monochlorinated products.

(a) Draw their structures.

(b) Predict the ratios in which these monochlorination products will be formed, remembering that a chlorine atom abstracts a secondary hydrogen about 4.5 times as fast as it abstracts a primary hydrogen.

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