Sodamide strips hydrogen bromide from 1-bromoprop-1-ene, and the vinylic halide is dehydrohalogenated to the alkyne:
CH3CH=CHBrNaNH2CH3C≡CH
An alkyne passed through a red hot iron tube at 873 K undergoes cyclic polymerisation, three molecules joining into an aromatic ring. Three molecules of propyne combine so that the three methyl groups fall on alternate ring carbons. A is 1,3,5-trimethylbenzene, mesitylene.
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