QuestionRearrangements / Wagner–Meerwein (terpenes)
Consider the following reaction:
The major product ‘P’ of Wagner-Meerwein rearrangement is:
- (a) Chloride that keeps the bridged cyclobutane (pinane-type) skeleton, Cl on the bridge carbon next to the gem-dimethyl carbon
- (b) Bornyl chloride (2-chloro-1,7,7-trimethylbicyclo[2.2.1]heptane)
- (c) Chloride that keeps the pinane skeleton, Cl on the ring carbon next to the methyl-bearing carbon
- (d) Bicyclo[2.2.1]heptyl chloride with a bridgehead methyl and Cl on a methyl-bearing (tertiary) ring carbon, unsubstituted C7 bridge
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