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…
Read moreDescription: 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…
Read moreDescription: 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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Read moreDescription: In the presence of a metal catalyst such as palladium, hydrogen will add to alkenes to give alkanes. The rest of this page is available to MOC Members only….
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Read moreDescription: When amides are treated with chlorine and base, a rearrangement occurs, resulting in the loss of carbon dioxide and the formation of an amine. The rest of this page…
Read more…Comparing Optical Rotation Now comes the final piece of the puzzle: standardization. It would be useful to have a common standard for optical rotation that allowed us to compare samples…
Read moreDescription: Tetra-alkyl ammonium salts undergo elimination to form the least substituted alkene. This is called the Hofman elimination. The rest of this page is available to MOC Members only. To…
Read moreDescription: 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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