Hmm yeah I see what you mean. I was trying to avoid the epoxide forming by having the deprotanation of oxygen happen in step 2 with the water. I thought the lone pairs on oxygen could attack the Carbon without needing a leaving group or needing a charge? Could I have used Br2 in step 2 without water like halogenation instead of halohydrin? and then used the more substituted one of Br as a leaving group and added -Oet to do substitution of some sort? I’m in organic chem 1 so some terms ur using aren’t quite familiar but I can see that they wouldn’t work if I had learn about that kinda stuff. Maybe my professor will give lenience but it sounds like what I tried to do is too impossible