Making 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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Alkyne Reaction Patterns – The Carbocation Pathway
In the previous three posts on alkynes we’ve introduced some new reactions that are specific to alkynes (versus alkenes): deprotonation (and subsequent substitution), partial reduction
Read moreMarkovnikov’s Rule (2) – Why It Works
Understanding Why Markovnikov’s Rule Works Let’s assemble all the facts we know about the reactions of alkenes with an acid like HCl so far. 1.Reactions
Read moreAddition Pattern #1: The “Carbocation Pathway”
MOC: What were some of your biggest roadblocks in learning organic chemistry? OCI: Not learning the patterns. I think I wasn’t told that there were
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