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Alcohols & Esters Flashcards

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Compare the boiling points of alcohols and esters

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Alcohols have higher boiling points due to hydrogen bonding

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How can oxymercuration be used to produce an alcohol?

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Mercury acetate is added to an alkene to produce a hydroxyalkyl mercury compound, which then undergoes demercuration using NaBH4 to replace the acetoxymercury group with a hydrogen

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How can hydroboration produce an alcohol?

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An alkene reacts with BH3 to produce an alkylborane, which undergoes oxidation with hydrogen peroxide to yield the alcohol

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How is Markovnikov or anti-Markovnikov addition determined?

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Whether the nucleophile (such as -OH) was added to the most or least (anti) substituted group

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Oxymercuration always leads to…

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Markovnikov addition (most substituted)

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Boronation always leads to…

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anti-Markovnikov addition (least substituted)

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Acid-catalyzed ring opening occurs at…

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the most substituted carbon

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Base-catalyzed ring opening occurs at…

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the least substituted carbon

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