Design a Synthesis of 2-methyl-2-pentanol from 1-bromo-2-methylpentane Part 1: Choose the best option for the immediate precursor to the target molecule. An alkene that has greater substitution on one end of the double bond permits you to control the regiochemistry, placing the OH group selectively on one of the two double bond carbons. This alkene is the best choice, considering the starting material that you have available. Part 2: Choose the best option for the precursor needed to make the alkene. Alkenes can be made in good yield by elimination of HBr from an alkyl halide. Whenever possible, use an alkyl halide that can only make a single alkene by HBr elimination. Part 3: Here is an overview of your retrosynthesis (there is no work, this is just a recap). Part 4 out of 6 Choose the most appropriate reagent(s) for the first step of the synthesis.

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Explanation:

The overall question is design a synthesis. The rest of the question is just for you to choose the correct procedure of the synthesis.

Now first of all, you need to know how this reaction goes. We have an alkyl halide that undergoes a whole process to become a tertiary alcohol. Now the first step would be doing a E2 reaction, to eliminate the bromine and turn the molecule into an alkene.

When the molecule is turned into an alkene, we will have a double bond available to do another reaction.

In this case we can use any method to do an alkene hydration. You can use a acid medium, or use mercury compounds among others. This will be through acid medium cause it's easier.

In the picture below, you have the mechanism of this reaction:

every chemical equation adheres to the law of conservation of mass, which states that matter cannot be created or destroyed. therefore, there must be the same number of atoms of each element on each side of a chemical equation.