Reactions of Grignard Reagents
Here’s the summary for today’s post: So far in this series we’ve introduced organometallic compounds and said that their carbons tend to be nucleophilic. We’ve
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Opening Of Epoxide With Base
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
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Here’s what we’re covering in this post. Opening Epoxides With Aqueous Acid In the last post, we saw some examples of how epoxides are considerably
Read moreReagent Friday: Grignard Reagents
In a blatant plug for the Reagent Guide and the Reagents App for iPhone, each Friday I profile a different reagent that is commonly encountered in Org 1/ Org
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In a blatant plug for the Reagent Guide, each Friday I profile a different reagent that is commonly encountered in Org 1/ Org 2. mCPBA (meta-chloroperoxybenzoic
Read moreThe Most Annoying Exceptions in Org 1 (Part 2)
Last time we talked about how some interesting electronic effects can lead to unexpected results in organic chemistry. Today we look at three examples of
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