CHAPTER 9: Question 4

 

Simple Answers

The only hydrogen adjacent to the bromine atom is at a bridgehead position. Hence, if elimination were to occur, a bridgehead alkene would be formed. This is not permitted by Bredt's rule, since it would be impossible for the atoms around the alkene to be coplanar or even approximately coplanar. Hence, no elimination occurs.
 

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