Oxymercuration: Alcohols from alkenes using Hg(OAc)2 and Water
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Read more…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 – stereochemistry is often…
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…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 bottom of…
Read more…an ether. The mercury can then be removed using NaBH4. The rest of this page is available to MOC Members only. To get access to this page, plus over 1500…
Read more…opening of bromonium or mercurinium ions. Table of Contents Formation of trans-Diols Through Opening of Epoxides With Aqueous Acid The Mechanism For Opening of trans-Diols With Acid Is Similar To…
Read more…number of valence electrons – like sodium, lithium, and potassium – are trapped in an endless cycle of poverty. Any electrons they happen to gather up are almost immediately stolen…
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Read more…Williamson Ether Synthesis Opening of Epoxides With Acid Epoxide Ring Opening With Base Intramolecular Reactions of Alcohols and Ethers Alcohols To Ethers via Acid Catalysis (Advanced) References and Further Reading…
Read moreRearrangement Reactions: Substitution Reactions With Hydride Shifts In this post we cover several examples of reactions where carbocations form… but then a funny thing happens. An adjacent bonding pair of…
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