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Question
CBSEENCH12008030

Give structures of the products you would expect when each of the following alcohol reacts with,
(a) HCl—ZnCl2 (b) HBr and (c) SOCl2.

(i)  Butan-1-ol      (ii) 2-Methyl butan-2-ol.

Solution

(HCl—ZnCl2) is lucas reagent, lucas reagent react with alcohol however it does not react with primary alcohol but readily gives turbidity with tertiary alcohols.
a) Reaction with (HCl—ZnCl2):
Butan-1-ol is primary alcohol thus no reaction occur.
where as 2-methyl butan-2-ol is tertiary alcohol, it forms 2-chloro-2-methylbutane.


b) Reaction with HBr:

c) Reaction with SOCl2: