Organic Chemistry (8th Edition)

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Chapter 6 - Alkyl Halides: Nucleophilic Substitution and Elimination - Problems - Page 255: Problem 6-26 c

Answer

The 1st step is that iodine leaves. Then, one of the hydrides of the adjacent carbon to the left of the carbocation shifts to the carbocation.Now the carbon that lost hydride becomes a carbocation. Then HOCOCH3 attacks the new carbocation and deprotonation takes place.

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