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The detailed (and as complete as possible) description of plausible or observable pathways leading from reactants to products of a chemical process. This tag should be applied to questions about these processes. It may be applied to hypothetical and/or proposed mechanisms.

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Alkene reactions with sodium tert-butoxide and CHBr₃

Dibromo carbene will form in the reaction for sure because tert-butoxide is a very strong non nucleophilic base and here dibromo carbene will form after the alpha elemination. For the next step I thin …
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Can Ethanol be used to carry out SN1 reaction?

Be careful! Ethanol is not a strong acid ($\mathrm{p}K_\mathrm{a} \approx 16$). So its conversion to ethoxide anion is not so easy. Rather, it would attack the $\ce{C}$ center by its lone pair and th …
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