Question

1-The starting alkene has a boiling point of 102C and the product alcohol has a boiling point of 137C. What

will be the order of elution for the starting material and the product if you ran a GC on an incomplete reaction?

2- Is the product of the reaction chiral?

How many stereoisomers will be produced?

Is the product of the reaction optically active?

Answer 1

In the given reaction, the reactant alkene is non-polar and product is an alcohol a moderately polar molecule hence they can be separated by GC.

Between alkene and alcohol, alkene is more eluting than alcohol due to strong binding nature of polar compounds than non-polar compounds to the stationary phase

5.a) In the reaction, the product is chiral with one chiral centre

b) Since the molecule contain one chiral centre it can have 2 stereoisomers

c) the product stereroiomers are non-superimposable mirrior images and hence optically active

if the two isomers are formed in equal amounts then it results a racemic mixture and hence optically inactive