Question

Predict the products formed due to the homolytic cleavage of the $C-Br$ bond in $(C{H}_3{)}_{3}CBr$.

• A. $(C{H}_3{)}_3{C}^{\bullet }$
• B. $B{r}^{\bullet }$
• C. $B{r}^{-}$
• D. $(C{H}_3{)}_3{C}^{+}$

Answer 1

Answer: (A), (B)

$B{r}^{\bullet }$

In homolytic bond cleavage, the bonded atoms get one electron each of the shared pair in a covalent bond.
A species with an unpaired electron in its valence shell is called a free radical. Here, the products formed are bromine free radical and tert-butyl free radical.