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Draw sodium methoxide and potassium tert-butoxide. How are they different? What products do you expect from reacting each base with 2-bromoheptane? With 1-bromoheptane?
Explain what makes potassium tert-butoxide more sterically hindered than sodium methoxide and why sodium methoxide could also exhibit steric hindrance when it acts as a base.
What are possible side reactions for each of the reactions?
Why do you want to keep everything dry for this reaction?