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10 years ago
Can someone please tell me why answer choice A is the correct answer?  Thank you so much!

The question is: Which reagents will produce this ether in the highest yield?

The other part of the question and the answers choices are structures, so I attached a picture of the question to this post.

I greatly appreciate your help!
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10 years ago
HI diamond3094

Could you give us an update on this? Sorry for the late reply, by the way.
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10 years ago
Hi diamond3094,

Looking at the choices, B and C could be eliminated, because the configuration of carbon #3 of the product would be different than what we wanted.
For D, notice the carbon that have the bromine group is a secondary carbon Rightwards Arrow it could either undergo a substitution or elimination reaction. However, for A, the carbon containing bromine group is a primary carbon, which will almost exclusively undergo substitution reaction.

Hope this helps,
Laser
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