Review Session Details
- Learn a simplified mechanism for ALL alcohol oxidations
- Understand the different reagents used for alcohol oxidations (PCC/PDC, Jones etc.)
- π-bond electrophile properties: molecular orbitals and reactivity
- Assessing their electrophilicity of carbonyls and imines
- Ranking leaving groups for carbonyls
- Four detailed general mechanisms of carbonyl/imine chemistry in basic and acidic conditions
- Carbonyls/imines reactions in neutral/basic conditions (includes: Gringard reactions, NaBH4/LiAlH4 reductions, cyanohydrides, saponification, transesterification, amide formation)
- Carbonyls/imines reactions in acidic conditions (includes: hemi-acetal and acetal formation, imine formation)
- Learn to provide the major product without a mechanism
- A guide for complex carbonyl reactions: Wittig, Bayer-Villiger and Wolff-Kishner
