For chlorine, the differences in E_act are small and chlorine can easily
break any of the bonds. For bromine, it is a different story. The
tertiary C-H bond is much, much easier to break than the primary bond.
Thus, the bromine will be more selective towards tertairy C-H bonds!
Ed
chapelej
On Sun, 15 Dec 1996 moehrikm@plu.edu wrote:
> howdy chem folks!
> i was wondering if anyone knew why chlorine is less selective than
> bromine. please help i would appreciate it.
>
> thanks a lot!
> kate
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