Your team is faced with a puzzle. Four isomeric compounds, A D, with the molecular formula
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Your team is faced with a puzzle. Four isomeric compounds, A – D, with the molecular formula C4H9BrO react with KOH to produce E – G with the molecular formula C4H8O. Molecules A and B yield compounds E and F, respectively. The NMR spectra of compounds C and D are identical, and both furnish the same product, G. Although some of the starting materials are optically active, none of the products is. Moreover, each of E, F, and G displays only two 1H NMR signals of varying chemical shifts, none of them located between δ 4.6 and 5.7 ppm. Both the respective resonances of E and G are complex, whereas F exhibits two singlets. Proton-decoupled 13C NMR spectra for E and G show only two peaks, whereas F exhibits three. Using this spectral information, work together to determine which isomers of C4H9BrO will yield the respective isomers of C4H8O. When you have matched reactant and product, divide the task of predicting the proton and carbon NMR spectra of E, F, and G among yourselves. Estimate the 1H and 13C chemical shifts for all, and predict the respective DEPT spectra.
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Organic Chemistry structure and function
ISBN: 978-1429204941
6th edition
Authors: K. Peter C. Vollhardt, Neil E. Schore