Question:When trans-stillbene and cis-stillbene react with pyridinium
hydrobromide perbromide (PHP), one of them is getting a...
Question
When trans-stillbene and cis-stillbene react with pyridinium
hydrobromide perbromide (PHP), one of them is getting a...
When trans-stillbene and cis-stillbene react with pyridinium
hydrobromide perbromide (PHP), one of them is getting a racemic
product. Which starting material leads to the racemic
product?
The cis and trans isomers of stiblene has different geometries,
when they are reacted with pyridinium tribromide, they give
stereoisomers bromonium ion and eventually their products different
in the stereochemistry.
The product formed is 1,2-dibromo-1,2-diphenylethane has two
sterogenic centres, which results in four stereoisomers.
Trans-stiblene forms two meso products...image I
cis-stiblene forms a reacmic mixture (equal amounts of two
non-superimpossible mirror images isomers).....image -II