Alkene Stability
Alkene Stability (And Instability) What factors affect alkene stability? If you’ve studied elimination reactions, no doubt you’ve learned about Zaitsev’s Rule – about how elimination
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Conjugation And Color (+ How Bleach Works)
Conjugation And Color Why are tomatoes red? Why are carrots orange? Why are egg yolks yellow? And… why is Vulcan blood green? OK, I’m not going
Read moreMore Reactions on the Aromatic Sidechain: Reduction of Nitro Groups and the Baeyer Villiger
Here we cover three new reactions of aromatic substituents: reduction of nitro groups to amines, protection of amines as amides, and the Baeyer-Villiger oxidation of
Read moreOxidation 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
Read morePartial Reduction of Alkynes With Lindlar’s Catalyst
Partial Reduction of Alkynes to cis Alkenes with the Lindlar Catalyst Alkynes are generally more reactive towards catalytic hydrogenation (e.g. Pd-C, H2) than alkenes While
Read moreAlkynes Are A Blank Canvas
Alkynes: The Gateway To Organic Synthesis Now that we’ve gone through all the major reactions of alkynes, we can take a step back and look
Read morePalladium on Carbon (Pd/C) for Catalytic Hydrogenation of Alkenes
Catalytic Hydrogenation of Alkenes With Pd/C (And Friends) Alkenes (and alkynes) will undergo addition of hydrogen (H2) in the presence of a metal catalyst such
Read moreAlkene Addition Pattern #3: The “Concerted” Pathway
“Concerted” Mechanisms In Alkene Addition Reactions: Hydroboration, Hydrogenation, Epoxidation, Dihydroxylation, And Simmons-Smith Cyclopropanation. In contrast to alkene addition reactions in the Carbocation Pathway and the
Read moreReagent Friday: Raney Nickel
Raney Nickel And The Desulfurization Of Thioacetals + Hydrogenation Of Alkenes (and Alkynes) In a blatant plug for the Reagent Guide and the Reagents App for iPhone, each Friday
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