Master Organic Chemistry Reaction Guide

Kiliani-Fischer Synthesis

Description: The Kiliani-Fischer synthesis is a way of extending sugars by one carbon. It leads to a mixture of stereoisomers. The rest of this page is available to MOC Members…

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Keto-enol tautomerism

Description: Ketones and other carbonyl compounds containing a hydrogen adjacent to the carbonyl are in equilibrium with a constitutional isomer called an enol. The rest of this page is available…

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How To Succeed In Organic Chemistry

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Hell-Vollhard-Zelinsky Reaction

Description: The Hell-Vollhard-Zelinsky [HVZ] reaction is a means of converting a carboxylic acid to a brominated carboxylic acid (the bromine ends up on the alpha carbon of the carboxylic acid)….

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