Consider the three alkoxide bases: methoxide, ethoxide, and tert-butoxide. In what way is the reactivity of tert-butoxide different from the others in elimination reactions? methoxide ethoxide tert-butoxide o tert-butoxide is a much stronger base than the others and so only performs o tert-butoxide is a much weaker base than the others and so doesn't perform E1 elimination reactions elimination reactions. tert-butoxide has more steric bulk than the others so it is more likely to make the Hofmann elimination product. the Zaitsev elimination product.