Review Session Details
- Learn the mechanism for ALL carbonyl reactions in acidic conditions (this includes acetals and imine formation)
- Assessing the acidity of alpha-hydrogen
- Know when you should do an enol/enolate reactions
- Understanding how to use an enolate against various electrophiles using electron pushing arrows
- Kinetic versus thermodynamic enols/enolates and when to make them
- Reacting enolates with carbonyls (ex. Aldol reactions and Claisen reactions)
- Understanding the complex carbonyl reactions: Bayer-Villiger and Wittig reactions (A simplified approach will be provided)
