JEE Main Chemistry question

Chemistry Haloalkanes and Haloarenes JEE Main

The compound (CH)CH–CHCl–CH (2-chloro-3-methylbutane) reacts with alcoholic KOH to give, as the major product, the following alkene:

(A)(CH)CH–CH=CH
(B)CH–CH=C=CH
(C)CHCHCH=CHCH
(D)(CH)C=CH–CHCorrect

Answer: (D)

Solution

E2 elimination of HCl can remove a -hydrogen from either neighbouring carbon; removing the hydrogen from the more substituted side (the

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