Organic Chemistry Some Basic Principles and Techniques - Result Question 48

####54. Homolytic fission of the following alkanes forms free radicals CH3CH3,CH3CH2CH3, (CH3)2CHCH3,CH3CH2CH(CH3)2. Increasing order of stability of the radicals is

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(a) (CH3)3C˙<(CH3)2C˙CH2CH3< CH3C˙HCH3<CH3C˙H2

(b) (CH3)2C˙CH2CH3<CH3C˙HCH3< CH3C˙H2<(CH3)3C˙

(c) CH3C˙H2<CH3C˙HCH3< (CH3)2C˙CH2CH3<(CH3)3C˙

(d) CH3C˙H2<CH3C˙HCH3<(CH3)3 C˙<(CH3)2C˙CH2CH3

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Solution:

  1. (c) Stability depends on number of hyperconjugative structure.


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