What alkene would you start with if you wanted to synthesize ethylcyclopentane?
1 Answer
Oct 31, 2014
You could prepare ethylcyclopentane from any of five different alkenes.
Here are their structures.
1-ethylcyclopentene
3-ethylcyclopentene
4-ethylcyclopentene
vinylcyclopentane
ethylidenecyclopentane
