The no. Of different substitution products when bromine and Ethane are allowed to react?

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Solution

Since halogenation of alkanes is mostly uncontrolled, you are likely to get a mixture of mono and polysubstituted products. These will be-

Monosubstituted: 1

Disubstituted: 2

Trisubstituted: 2

Tetrasubstituted: 2

Pentasubstituted: 1

Hexasubstituted: 1

Thus, you get a total of 9 structural isomers.

Note - none of the above products will be active.

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