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bredt's rule ??? wats dis ???

woh pata ni....

srinath......... explain dear....
i searched this for 10mins in google n got literally NOTHING useful!

Bredt's rule is an empirical observation in organic chemistry that states that a double bond cannot be placed at the bridgehead of a bridged ring system, unless the rings are large enough. The rule is named after Julius Bredt.

For example, two of the following isomers of norbornene violate Bredt's rule, which makes them too unstable to prepare:

In the figure, the bridgehead atoms involved in Bredt's rule violation are highlighted in red.

Bredt's rule is a consequence of the fact that having a double bond on a bridgehead would be equivalent to having a trans double bond on a ring, which is not possible for small rings (fewer than eight atoms) due to ring strain, and angle strain in particular.

Bredt's rule can be useful for predicting which isomer is obtained from an elimination reaction in a bridged ring system. It can also be applied to reaction mechanisms that go via carbocations and, to a lesser degree, via free radicals, because these intermediates, like carbon atoms involved in a double bond, prefer to have a planar geometry with 120 degree angles and sp2 hybridization.

(ref. : wikipedia)

yaar wikipedia toh hum bhi refer kiye ... kuch simple words mein batao na ??

thanx MAK.