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Reductive Amination

OK – so making amines through direct alkylation is generally not a great way to go. You could even say it’s crappy. So what’s the

The Wolff-Kishner, Clemmensen, And Other Carbonyl Reductions

In this post we go through 4 ways of reducing C=O to CH2 including: The Wolff-Kishner reaction The Clemmensen reduction Catalytic hydrogenation Thioacetal formation and

Gilman Reagents (Organocuprates): How They’re Made

Here’s the summary for today’s post: Organometallics: What About The Rest Of The Periodic Table? In this whole series on organometallics so far has covered

Calculating the oxidation state of a carbon

Try applying the rules for calculating oxidation states to carbon.

It’s going to feel a little bit weird. Why? Because there are two key differences.

First, carbon is often more electronegative (2.5) than some of the atoms it’s bound to (such as H, 2.2). So what do you do in this case?
Secondly, unlike metal-metal bonds, carbon-carbon bonds are ubiquitous. So how do you deal with them?

Oxidation and Reduction in Organic Chemistry

Iron smelting! Photo credit: http://sclowcountryoutdoors.blogspot.com/2011/02/iron-smelting-at-acba.html In the beginning, the term actually made sense. When the alchemists and medieval metallurgists started doing experiments to quantify exactly how

Hydroboration of Alkenes

So far in this series on alkenes, we’ve gone through two families of mechanism pathways. In the carbocation pathway, we saw reactions that proceed with

Reaction Friday – Reduction of Alkynes to Alkenes with Na/NH3

My apologies for the interruption. I seem to have wrested control of my blog back from the cats for now, but I’m not sure how

Reagent Friday: Zinc Amalgam (Zn-Hg)

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

Reagent Friday: Palladium on Carbon (Pd/C)

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

Reagent Friday: Raney Nickel

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