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Question
Assertion: Tertiary butyl bromide undergoes Wurtz reaction to give 2,2,3,3 tetramethyl butane.
Reason: In Wurtz reaction, when same alkyl halides react with sodium in dry ether to give hydrocarbon; the hydrocarbon formed contains double the number of carbon atoms present in the alkyl halide.
Options
Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is the correct explanation of assertion.
Both Assertion and Reason are true but Reason is not the correct explanation for Assertion.
Assertion is true but Reason is false.
Both Assertion and Reason are false.
Solution
Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is the correct explanation of assertion.
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