Review Session Details
- Understand how/when to use acetals as protecting groups and their mechanism
- Briefly learn about sugar chemistry and how to apply the Benedict’s test
- Learn to provide appropriate reagent tables
- Using TLC to monitor sugar reactions with organic compounds (i.e. 10% H2SO4/MeOH)
- Understand the concept of recrystallization and how to troubleshoot to get product
- How to use enolates against electrophiles presented during the term
- The mechanism for aldol reactions (with retrosynthesis)
- Dehydration conditions to make α,β-unsaturated carbonyls
- The mechanism for haloform reaction and key steps
- Applying 1H NMR to enols/enolates
