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Piperidine is exhaustively methylated ( in excess, then /, heat) and the resulting tertiary amine is subjected to the whole sequence once more. The hydrocarbon finally obtained, together with trimethylamine, is:

  1. Apenta-1,3-diene
  2. Bpenta-1,4-diene
  3. Ccyclopentene
  4. Dpent-1-ene

Answer: B

The first round gives N,N-dimethylpent-4-en-1-amine by ring-opening Hofmann elimination (the ring N-C bond breaks, the C=C forms at the terminal position). The second round forms the quaternary ammonium salt, and elimination again removes the most accessible beta-hydrogen, giving (penta-1,4-diene) and .
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