onequestion Posted July 12, 2009 Posted July 12, 2009 (edited) ok sorry for all these questions but i really can't predict the right answer. say you were to mix methane and chlorophenol in a 1:1 ratio by molecules, would you get hydroxytoluene + hydrogen chloride or chlorotoluene + water? what if instead of chlorophenol it was chloroiodobenzene? would you get chlorotoluene + HI, or iodotoluene + HCl? i would think the latter but i can't say for sure. Edited July 12, 2009 by onequestion
John Cuthber Posted July 12, 2009 Posted July 12, 2009 I wouldn't expect the first pair to react. If you heated it up until it did then you would get an unholy mess of products.
onequestion Posted July 13, 2009 Author Posted July 13, 2009 (edited) ok maybe not practically but theoretically like say methyl chloride is a methylating agent so it should react with say methane to change one of the hydrogens to a methyl group and make ethane. so then phenyl chloride should theoretically do the same except instead of methylating it should phenylate it and make toluene, no? and then chlorophenol is just phenyl hydroxide chloride. maybe i'm overly optimistic Edited July 13, 2009 by swansont defused f-bomb
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