The major product expected from the sequential reaction of cyclopentene with [tex]Br_{2} /H_{2} O[/tex] , followed by sodium hydroxide is cyclopentene epoxide.
The treatment of cyclopentene with [tex]Br_{2} /H_{2} O[/tex] which is known as bromine water is an electrophilic substitution reaction.
In the first step the bromine molecule and the water molecule reacts each other and leads to formation of the bromohydrines . After that bromohydrines will break and we get halide anion i.e., bromine anion because bromine is more electronegativity and hydrin as a cation.
The cyclopentene will react with bromohydrin to give trans-2-bromopententanol and after reaction with base it give cyclopentane epoxide .
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