Reducing Sugars
Reducing Sugars Reducing sugars are small carbohydrates (usually containing one or two sugar units) that are capable of acting as reducing agents towards metal salts
Read moreReducing Sugars Reducing sugars are small carbohydrates (usually containing one or two sugar units) that are capable of acting as reducing agents towards metal salts
Read moreMore Grignard Practice Problems, This Time Incorporating Oxidation Here’s the summary for today’s post on synthesis incorporating Grignard reagents and oxidants. Converting an aldehyde into
Read moreSimplifying Alcohol Oxidation: “Strong” Oxidants and “Weak” Oxidants Here’s what we’ll talk about today: reagents for the oxidation of alcohols. For the purposes of introductory
Read moreAlcohol Oxidation Mechanisms, Demystified • The mechanisms for the oxidation of alcohols generally involve putting a good leaving group on oxygen, followed by deprotonation of an
Read moreTry 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?
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
Read moreHydroboration Oxidation of Alkenes In this article we cover one of the most important methods for forming alcohols from alkenes, hydroboration-oxidation. Hydroboration is an addition reaction between an alkene
Read moreOsmium tetroxide, OsO4 Osmium tetroxide (OsO4) is a useful reagent for the dihydroxylation of alkenes The products of these reactions are 1,2-diols (“vicinal” diols), where the two
Read moreSodium Periodate, NaIO4 As A Reagent In Organic Chemistry In a blatant plug for the Reagent Guide and the Reagents App for iPhone, each Friday I profile a different
Read morePyridinium Chlorochromate (PCC), A Useful Oxidant For Alcohols In Organic Chemistry In a blatant plug for the Reagent Guide, each Friday I profile a different reagent
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