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1.(a) What is a chain reaction?
(b) Why is monobromination of ethane a more practical reaction than the monobromination of propane?
(c) Write the mechanism involved in the chain reaction of monbromination of propane. State the experimental conditions, major and minor products.
Name each of the steps. Explain your answer.
(d) Draw the bond-line formula of 3,4-dimethylhexane.
Is geometric isomerism observed in 3,4-dimethylhexane?
What structural features must be present for stereoisomers to
exist?
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