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From Gen Chem To Organic Chem

The Key Concepts From General Chemistry You’ll Need For Organic Chemistry – In One Short E-Book Click the book to download! Thanks for subscribing! Click Here to download “From Gen…

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Introduction to Peptide Synthesis

…gives you an idea of the process. At about 0:34 you can see how small the beads are. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVXUfC2pLh4 The starting point for the Merrifield process is crosslinked polystyrene. which…

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Huckel’s Rule: What Does 4n+2 Mean?

…OXIDE W. von E. Doering and Francis L. Detert Journal of the American Chemical Society 1951 73 (2), 876-877 DOI: 10.1021/ja01146a537 In this paper, esteemed Harvard chemist William Eggers von

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Rules For Aromaticity

…system, with 162 p electrons! Evidence for aromaticity comes from both NMR measurements and experimental (NICS) calculations. Nucleus-Independent Chemical Shifts: A Simple and Efficient Aromaticity Probe Paul von Ragué Schleyer,…

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Introduction To Aromaticity

compounds in equilibrium will result in about a 99:1 distribution towards the more stable component (remember cyclohexane chair A-values?) Note 2. There’s a fourth diagnostic property of aromaticity – ring…

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The Ruff Degradation and Kiliani-Fischer Synthesis

…(2), 3066-3072 DOI: 10.1002/cber.188501802249 Reduction von Säuren der Zuckergruppe Emil Fischer Ber. 1889, 22 (2), 2204-2205 DOI: 10.1002/cber.18890220291 First two papers on the 1-carbon homologation of sugars using cyanide by…

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The Cope Elimination

…A great reference is Organic Reactions which covers the discovery of this reaction and every example of it up until 1960. Link. Zur Einwirkung von Wasserstoffsuperoxyd auf Fettamine Mamlock R….

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Reducing Sugars

…Fehlings and Tollens’ Tests: Three Visual “Tests” For The Presence of Aldehydes Reducing Sugars: Sugars With A Hemiacetal Functional Group Give Positive Tests Since They Are In Equilibrium With An…

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