Monoamine
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Hydrolysis of alkyl halides
Would NaBH4 or LiAlH4 reduce aliphatic halogens to H?
For instance would
CH3-(CH2)-(CH2)-(H2C-Cl) become (CH3)-(CH2)-(CH2)-(CH3) when treated with NaBH4
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clearly_not_atara
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This is not hydrolysis, it's called hydrogenolysis. But see:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja00959a028
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You can learn about this reaction just about anywhere. For example, in five minutes or so, I found references in Wikipedia, and several YouTube
videos. Also, I can't imagine there is not a relatively current organic chemistry textbook that doesn't mention this reaction. Hydrolysis of alkyl
halides generally refers to their reaction with wit water to produce alcohols (alkanols).
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If you want to turn an alkyl halide into an alkane, react it with magnesium to form a grignard and add water.
Please remember: "Filtrate" is not a verb.
Write up your lab reports the way your instructor wants them, not the way your ex-instructor wants them.
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That's certainly one of the simplest ways (Grignard), will work best for bromides, some chlorides work, but more challenging. But very cheap,
simple, and straightforward, just need some dry ether or THF in order to initiate it, once started you can add wet ether to swap the MgX for the H.
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Texium
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