Answer to Question #278013 in Organic Chemistry for Dubnix

Question

Assuming 3-methyl-4,5-broom-2-heptene is the reactant, show one possible reaction it can undergo to get an alkane with more than one hydroxyl group.

Answer 1

Alkanes (the most basic of all organic compounds) undergo very few reactions. The two reactions of more importaces is combustion and halogenation, (i.e., substitution of a single hydrogen on the alkane for a single halogen) to form a haloalkane.