Aqueous sodium bicabonate used to wash the crude n-butyl bromide.

Question

a) What was the purpose of this wash? Give equation.
b)Why would it be undesirable to waash the crude halide with aqueous sodium hydroxide?

Answer 1

alkene will form

Answer 2

pito

Answer 3

the purpose of using bicarbonate was to nutralize the acid.
if we used sodium hydroxide we would not form t-pently chloride. we will be competing sn1 and e1 forming an alkene