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Textbook and Chapters: Carey and Giuliano 8th Ed. (2010), Chapters 4, 5, 6
Keywords: carbocation, carbocation formation, carbocation rearrangement
Description: This mendel set guides you through everything you have to know about carbocations:
Also includes some practice problems: addition to an alkene, dehydration (E1), and substitution (SN1).
Total Problems: 8
Let's go over how a carbocation can form from an alkene.
Use curved arrows to show the two carbocations that can from from 1-methylcyclohexene.
3° carbocations are more stable than 2º carbocations, so only the 3º carbocation is formed.
Let's go over how a carbocation can form from an alcohol.
Write in the curved arrows to show the formation of the protonated alcohol, and water acting as a leaving group to form a carbocation.