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The order of ease of dehydrohalogenation by alcoholic for ethyl bromide, isopropyl bromide and tert-butyl bromide is:

  1. Aethyl bromide isopropyl bromide tert-butyl bromide
  2. Bisopropyl bromide tert-butyl bromide ethyl bromide
  3. Call three react at the same rate
  4. Dtert-butyl bromide isopropyl bromide ethyl bromide

Answer: D

More alkyl substituents give more beta-hydrogens (statistical factor) and a more substituted, more stable alkene in the transition state. Therefore the halide eliminates faster than the , which eliminates faster than the .
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