If you feel sometimes like mechanisms in carbonyl chemistry keep repeating themselves, you aren’t just imagining things. The fact is that there IS a lot of repetition.
This has been covered before – the PAPED mechanism is at the core of a lot of important carbonyl reactions, but this time I’ve put a whole bunch of reactions of carbonyl compounds on one page and represented them graphically.
Let me know if you find this useful!
Summary Sheet #7 – 21 Carbonyl Mechanisms on One Page
