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Draw the major elimination product formed in the following reaction.
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♦ Relevant knowledge
Tertiary haloalkanes are organic compounds where the carbon bonding to a halogen is connected to three different alkyl groups. The molecule in question undergoes an E1 elimination mechanism that involves the polar protic solvents. But, tertiary haloalkanes are also susceptible to solvolysis in which the solvent could act as a nucleophile due because of the stability of the intermediate carbocation.
This problem is based upon the concepts of nucleophilic substitute reactions and elimination reactions.
The elimination reaction is the removal of proton to make alkene. There are two types of elimination reactions:
and 
.
The
elimination reaction involves the formation of carbocation and then proton abstraction takes place whereas 
elimination reaction does not involve an intermediate formation. To give an alkene, the base removes the proton from reactant.
Below is the structure of reactants
Below is the mechanism for the chemical reaction.
Ans:
Below is the structure of the main product: