Master Organic Chemistry Reaction Guide

Thermodynamic and Kinetic Products

…eat canned Ravioli. However this state of affairs did not last long. Within the next week my $1.14 can opener had opened (poorly!) about three or four cans before flying…

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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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Reductive Amination

…One common reducing agent for this purposes is sodium cyanoborohydride (NaBH3CN) which can selectively reduce imines in the presence of aldehydes. Many other reducing agents (NaBH4, NaBH(OAc)3, etc.) can be…

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Reactions of Dienes: 1,2 and 1,4 Addition

the day we talked about addition reactions of alkenes. Remember Markovnikov’s rule in the addition of electrophiles to alkenes? For example, take an alkene like 1-butene, and add HBr. What…

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