Tosylates And Mesylates
Today we’re going to talk about a different way of making alcohols into good leaving groups – by turning them into tosylates and mesylates (“organosulfonates”). Here’s a
Read moreToday we’re going to talk about a different way of making alcohols into good leaving groups – by turning them into tosylates and mesylates (“organosulfonates”). Here’s a
Read moreLately 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
Read moreI’ve had a fair number of emails over the past week or two from students who say that they are having a hard time keeping
Read moreFollowing from Adam’s last guest post on the SN1/SN2/E1/E2 (“The Leaving Group“) here is part 3 of the series! – James Step One: What is
Read moreThe second in a series of guest posts on SN1/SN2/E1/E2 by Chemistry Blog author and “instructor of organic chemistry at a small Midwestern liberal arts
Read moreAs you’ve probably noticed by now, organic chemistry is a lot different from physics. When we’re looking to predict what reaction might occur in a
Read moreImagine you’re starting with the alcohol on the left and you’d like to get to the alkene on the right. What bonds are formed and
Read moreFollowing up on the 4 most important patters of reactions in Org 1, and introduction to acid-base reactions, here’s the second major pattern. It’s called
Read moreHaving gone through the two different types of substitution reactions, and talked about nucleophiles and electrophiles, we’re finally in a position to reveal the mechanism
Read morePreviously we saw that there are two important classes of nucleophilic substitution reactions, which differ in their rate laws, dependence on substitution pattern, and the
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