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Synthesis of racemic nicotine
In my advanced organic chemistry course, we were asked to fill the following scheme for the synthesis of racemic nicotine, starting with ethyl nicotinate:
Exercise 6: Complete the following scheme ...
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Retrosynthesis of 4-ethyl-2,2,5,5-tetramethyl-1,3-dioxane
I asked a similar question yesterday. They ask us to suggest a retrosynthesis for 4-ethyl-2,2,5,5-tetramethyl-1,3-dioxane
I found this slide in our lecture where a dioxane is synthesized.
If I ...
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Retrosynthesis of 2,5,8-trimethylnonan-5-ol
They ask us to suggest a retrosynthesis of 2,5,8-trimethylnonan-5-ol:
So I went through my course slides, and I found this:
Translation: verwende Grignard = use Grignard
My question is: Can I ...
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Palladium coupling reactions and purification
I tried to synthesize 2-(6-fluoropyridin-3-yl) acetic acid from 5-(Chloromethyl)-2-fluoropyridine using Pd(OAc)2/PPh3 catalyst,Na2CO3 and DCC. I eluted my product on TLC with Ethyl acetate/hexane/...
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