Questions tagged [allenes]
Use for question regarding the structure and properties of compounds containing a sequence of two cumulated double bonds.
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Synthesis of alkynes by double dehydrohalogenation; don't allenes also form?
So I was randomly looking at some really random exercises and I stumbled across synthesis of propyne from given compounds. There was $\ce{CH3CHBrCH2Br}$ as my substrate and I had to propose a way of ...
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Does a chiral allene have stereogenic centres?
This a picture of what my professor taught in class.
According the the definition of a stereogenic centre, allene should have two of them. So I don't understand what I am interpreting wrong.
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