Wurtz reaction

Siddhant chaudhary

Why wurtz reaction is not good method for unsymetric alkanes ?

Anirudh

Because in usymetric alkanes it foems large no. of compounds which are having low boiling pt. and cannot be seperated

nithish p sajji

You mean similar b.p right ?

Madhusudan Chavan

Wurtz reaction with mixed alkyl halides(two different alkyl halides) will lead to all the possible products, for ex. reaction between CH3Br & C2H5Br with sodium metal will give CH3-CH3, C2H5-C2H5, & CH3-C2H5; hence the reaction is not suitable for preparing alkanes with odd no. of carbon atoms.

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