• according to this rule, base-induced elimination reactions generally give the more stable alkene product—that is, the alkene with the larger number of alkyl substituents on the double bond.
  • In the elimination of HX from an alkyl halide, the more highly substituted alkene product predominates.

 Zaitsev’s rule

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