Questions tagged [organic-chemistry]
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Bromination with NBS and AIBN
I reacted 3-pyridylacetic acid (6 fluoro) with NBS and AIBN in CCl4. I refluxed the reaction mixture for 4 hours at 80 degrees. No reaction occurred, and the starting material remained (based on TLC ...
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Identifying optically active alcohols
The correct option is D only.
I am having a confusion with option B and C. The compound in option B reacts with Grignard to form this
There's only one chiral carbon and thus must be optically active. ...
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Stereochemistry of Rearrangements of carbocations [closed]
Suppose in a carbocation ,rearrangement of methyl has to to place to a chiral carbon, forming a stabler cation in the process.But what will be the stereochemistry of the rxn? Will the chiral carbon on ...
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How to name HOOC-CH2-(C=O)-O-CH2-CH3? [closed]
How do we name the following compound according to IUPAC?
I do not have clearance on how to name Ester[R(C=O)-OR]'s prefix (like when are we supposed to use Alkoxy carbonyl, or Alkanoyl oxy) so if ...
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What are the EN values for sp and sp2-hybridized carbon atoms?
I've asked ChatGPT and found on Quora separate answers:
Quora states the EN values of sp and sp2-hybridized carbons are 3.2 and 2.7, respectively while ChatGPT claims 3.3 and 3.0.
Any additional ...
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Mass of boron in boric acid
I have recently submitted a slime activator product for EN71-3 UK toy safety testing. The test aims to measure the amount of boron that is able to migrate from the toy if it is consumed by a child in ...
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Orbital correlation diagram of cylobutane opening to ethylene
In one of the previous exams, we were asked to draw the orbital correlation diagram for the ring-opening of cyclobutane to two molecules of ethylene. The first step would be to draw the transition ...
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Oxidation of Toluene with Permanganate in Acidic and Basic Environment
So, in my current undergrad organic chemistry course, we were introduced to oxidation using permanganate. I know that alkenes can be oxidised to carbonyl compounds using hot, acidic KMnO4, but in our ...
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Gabriel phthalimide reaction [closed]
I am studying organic chemistry and I am trying to understand Gabriel phthalimide reaction. In the first step, it react with $\ce{KOH}$, then $\ce{RX}$ and then $\ce{NaOH (aq)}$. In the $\ce{NaOH}$ ...
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Can 2-methylpropanal + 2-methylpropanal undergo an aldol condensation reaction?
After solving the mechanism, I found it to be correct. Can someone please guide me through the reaction and correct any mistakes.
If you go step by step through the mechanism, and do it, you have to ...
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Why do we normally prefere one perspective when doing a chair flip?
The common representation of the chair flip looks like this:
But why go through the "trouble" of drawing the skeleton differently if it would work the same way with this representation:
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Why is the Molar mass of CO2 different than the weight of the sum of its particles?
The Molar mass of CO2 is stated to be 44.009 grams per mol
But in a calculation of the weight of each atom's particles((Electrons,Protons,Neutrons) times Avogadro's constant
I get 44.36 grams per mol
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What is the reason that resonance do not seem to increase the reactivity of organic compund but actually decrease the reactivity by making it stable? [closed]
In Organic reaction mechanism , resonance seem very important for certain group of reaction for Example:-
Due to resonance in benzene ring it will increase the electron density in ortho and para ...
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Doubt related to IUPAC nomenclature and RCOOX functional group [duplicate]
Does this compound exist?
If yes, then what will be its IUPAC name?
Also, what is the RCOOX functional group called?
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Number of stable molecules [closed]
Is there are software/freeware (artificial intelligence or whatever) that given some types of atoms and their number how many "stable"/"reliable" molecules we can build involving ...
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