bluekade5050 Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 Just recently took a quiz and one of the problems that got to me was this The following are involved in reactions that produce halides from secondary alcohol substrates , EXCEPT: pyridine PBr3 SOCl2 HBr I got the problem wrong but was wondering what is the true answer....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypervalent_iodine Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 Have you considered the structures of all of the options? You’ll notice that one of them is missing a crucial aspect that the others all have if you do this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BabcockHall Posted November 17, 2018 Share Posted November 17, 2018 I might be tempted to quibble a bit with the answer, because even the one substance that is clearly unlike the others is sometimes used as a solvent in one reaction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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