Master Organic Chemistry Reaction Guide

Thermodynamic and Kinetic Products

…Note that if the product is too stable, nobody ever buys a replacement and the company goes out of business. That’s where planned obsolescence comes in. Note 2. Not all…

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The Gabriel Synthesis

…more acidic than it normally would be, because the resulting anion will be resonance stabilized. (Its pKa is 8.3 ) A common choice of base is a hydride base such…

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What is Mutarotation?

example of mutarotation in a non-sugar system, and one of the earliest examples containing a definitive proof of the role of acid in accelerating keto-enol tautomerism. The authors prepared the…

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