Alcohols (1) – Nomenclature and Properties
In this next series of posts we are going to discuss the reactions of alcohols. As a functional group, alcohols are introduced fairly early in
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Alcohols (3) – Acidity and Basicity
In the last post we said that one of the keys to the reactions of alcohols as we go forward is that the conjugate acid is
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Last post I got a little ahead of myself. I was all excited about getting into the reactions of ethers, and forgot that there’s one
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I’ve been looking forward to today’s post for a long time! We’ve gone through so many different ways of synthesizing ethers, and finally we get
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Opening of epoxides with base a summary of what we talk about today: In the last post we discussed the reactions of epoxides under acidic
Read moreMaking Alkyl Halides From Alcohols
Making Alkyl Halides From Alcohols In today’s post we show that treating alcohols with HCl, HBr, or HI (which all fall under the catch-all term
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Lately we’ve been talking a lot about converting alcohols to good leaving groups [halides] [tosylates and mesylates] You might think we’d be done already, but
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Here’s a summary of what we talk about in today’s post. Hydrohalic acids (HX) plus alcohols give substitution products… We just saw that treating an
Read moreAlcohol Oxidation: “Strong” and “Weak” Oxidants
Here’s what we’ll talk about today: reagents for the oxidation of alcohols. It’s helpful to break oxidants for alcohols into two categories: “weak” and “strong”.
Read moreProtecting Groups For Alcohols
Summary for today’s post on Protecting Groups: When Alcohols Get In the Way As we’ve seen in previous posts in this series, alcohols are very
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