Talk:Dehydrohalogenation

Technical

A quick explanation in lay terms would be welcome before diving into technical jargon (and also if this chemical reaction is used as part of industrial/biological/whatever process, mentioning it would help too). Equendil 18:42, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

I agree that the article is a bit technical when read by a non-chemist. But I have no clue about how to make it simpler. Most of the the articles about chemical reactions are quite technical (like Wurtz reaction, Grignard reaction etc) & I don't think many people, not interested in chemistry, will visit a page called dehydrohalogenation! As for the reaction, I'm not aware of it being used in any industrial or biological processes. This is a pure chemistry topic, so it doesn't have many industrial uses. Still I only have limited knowledge about the topic. Any extra info will always be welcome. BTW Equendil, your userpage says that you have a masters degree in Science. You must surely know more about this topic than me (just out of high school). Thanks Srikeit^{(talk ¦ ✉)} 19:05, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Most articles about chemistry (and other fields) are indeed pretty technical. I feel they should at least offer a short, non technical (or at least less technical) perspective because, well, this is an encyclopedia and every article is potentially consulted by non experts (for instance, high school/university students learning about the subject). Now of course, explaining technical or scientific matters to the layman can prove a tricky exercise (though an interesting one, I find it raises my own level of understanding as an expert in a different field).

As for my degree, it's in computer science, I'm not terribly literate when it comes to chemistry, my knowledge of the field is of high school grade. Good enough to decipher, but not much more.

Anyway, that was a nice contribution to wikipedia, maybe someone will step in and write an introduction, if not, I may give it a go if I can find out what purpose dehydrohalogenation serves in the grand scheme of things. Equendil 20:03, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Expert needed

I added the template on the Promoting elimination section, the "Perhaps a better reagent would be..." made me feel that this section isn't very accurate. 129.16.49.8 (talk) 14:54, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

   Yes the potassium tert-butoxide is a better reagent for favouring elemination. A small base will tend to cause substitution instead. A larger reagent will tend to act like a base and remove a proton whereas a smaller reagent will act as nucleophile and replace the halogen.Sidhu 2201 (talk) 18:43, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

main article's image should provide mechanism arrows

i think the main image for this article should show the mechanism to allow readers to understand this concept. the reaction should also show the H an X removed from the substrate. currently, that would appear as a concerted mechanism. a step-wise mechanism, where the loss of a leaving group and a proton transfer occurs separately, can also be shown. 173.3.44.91 (talk) 21:20, 27 May 2022 (UTC)