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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

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Grignard Reactions And Synthesis (2)

More 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

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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?

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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

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Hydroboration Oxidation of Alkenes

Hydroboration 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

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Reagent Friday: Sodium Periodate

Sodium 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

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