Question

Assertion: Tertiary butyl bromide undergoes Wurtz reaction to give 2,2,3,3 tetramethyl butane.

Reason: In Wurtz reaction, when same alkyl halides react with sodium in dry ether to give hydrocarbon; the hydrocarbon formed contains double the number of carbon atoms present in the alkyl halide.

Options

• Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is the correct explanation of assertion.

• Both Assertion and Reason are true but Reason is not the correct explanation for Assertion.

• Assertion is true but Reason is false.

• Both Assertion and Reason are false.

Answer 1

Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is the correct explanation of assertion.