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Read more…and Ketones…). Each of the reactions include step-by-step explanations, reagents, mechanisms, multiple examples, nuances, special cases, and rules, as well as practice quizzes from real-world exams. Anyone can access the…
Read more…alcohols! Note that this reagent isn’t covered in all courses, but I’ll include it here for completeness’ sake. We’ve talked about 2 ways to convert alcohols to alkenes so far:…
Read more…the standard battery of tests, doctors told me that my platelet count was 34. Normal humans have platelet counts of 150-300. Below 20 they immediately start blood infusions. The diagnosis…
Read more…to the carbocation and formed a new C-C π bond at that spot. It’s reasonable to propose that instead of attacking the carbocation to form a new substitution product, a…
Read more…surprising for two reasons. First, racemic acid was thought at the time to be a single compound. It turned out to be a 50:50 mixture of two compounds! Second, racemic…
Read more…Org. Synth. 1943, 23, 88 DOI: 10.15227/orgsyn.023.0088 This procedure from Organic Synthesis, a source of reliable and independently tested experimental organic chemistry procedures, shows how PBr3 is compatible with ethers….
Read more…charged alcohol leads to the neutral mesylate or tosylate. Note that the stereochemistry is completely unchanged here (unlike if we had used H-Cl, for example). Watch out for this –…
Read more…Alkyl Halides From Alcohols Rearrangement Example #1: Hydride Shift Rearrangement Example #2: Alkyl Shift Rearrangement Example #3: A Special Case of Alkyl Shift – Ring Expansion and Contraction What Doesn’t…
Read more…with cyclic molecules – see how the second and third examples open to give linear products. By the way, that first example is the answer to the quiz at the…
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