
organic chemistry - How to properly work with potassium HMDS ...
2013年9月27日 · If you would look up the properties of KHMDS from a chemical supplier, you will find it will react violently with with water. So do keep it under inert atmosphere. As for solubility, …
Why is the Still-Gennari reaction Z-selective?
2016年7月28日 · And yet, the reaction conditions are KHMDS/18-crown-6 which are clearly designed to eliminate the possibility of coordination to the potassium cation and maximise the …
Does DIBAL-H reduce alcohol? - Chemistry Stack Exchange
2020年12月27日 · $\begingroup$ i understand step (a) follows The Mitsunobu reaction, and steps (d) and (e) gives the aldehyde moiety in the final product, im stuck on how the C=C is formed …
organic chemistry - Why is the ketone not attacked by the …
2024年1月28日 · The book is correct. This is a classic example of a 1,4-addition (also called a conjugate addition) of an alkyl nucleophile to an α,β-unsaturated ketone.
Why is −78 °C a magic temperature for organic reactions?
2016年2月18日 · Dry ice (solid carbon dioxide) sublimes at −78 °C. Dry ice and acetone are a common cold bath for chemical reactions.
organic chemistry - What is the role of ammonium chloride in the …
2019年1月18日 · Ammonium chloride ($\ce{NH4Cl}$) is the work-up reagent that quenches the magnesium alkoxide product of the Grignard addition.
organic chemistry - Why can alkali metal hydrides usually not act …
2014年12月21日 · $\begingroup$ Jori that's an excellent question. The enolization process that you refer to (e.g. removal of an alpha proton) is very different from carbonyl addition.
What is the preferred IUPAC name of hexamethyldisilazane?
2017年12月31日 · According to the current version of Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry – IUPAC Recommendations and Preferred Names 2013 (Blue Book), as already mentioned in …