You Are Working in a Research Laboratory and Have Developed

question 36

Multiple Choice

You are working in a research laboratory and have developed a new reagent that cleaves C-H bonds homolytically. Unfortunately, this reagent can achieve only one of the transformations shown below. In light of bond dissociation energies, which transformation is most likely to be achieved?

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