What’s The Alpha Carbon In Carbonyl Compounds?
Alpha Carbon? Beta Carbon? Alpha, Beta Unsaturated Carbonyl? Making it through the chemistry of carbonyl derivatives (ketones, aldehydes, carboxylic acids, esters, and more) there are
Read moreAlpha Carbon? Beta Carbon? Alpha, Beta Unsaturated Carbonyl? Making it through the chemistry of carbonyl derivatives (ketones, aldehydes, carboxylic acids, esters, and more) there are
Read moreAldol Addition and Condensation Reactions (Base-Catalyzed) The Aldol Addition reaction is the addition of an enolate to an aldehyde (or ketone). Heating with base can result
Read moreTwo More Diene Reactions: Free-Radical Addition of HBr to Dienes, and Addition of Br2 to Dienes In an earlier post we covered 1,2 and 1,4
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