Alpha Carbon Chemistry: Enols & Enolates new Flashcards
When a ketone is treated with catalytic acid or base it can form ______________ in equilibrium
Enol
When a ketone is treated with catatylic base it will form an __________ in equilibrium
Enolate
Enols will undergo _____________ in either acid or base catalyzed
Tautomerization
When treated with a strong base the alpha position of a ketone is deprotonated to form an __________
Enolate
Enolates are ambient nucleophiles because they can be attack from the _______ or _______
Negative charge carbon or negative charge oxygen
The ________ protons are usually the most acidic protons, so deprotonated the alpha protons
Alpha
A strong base or ______ is used to form an enolate
LDA
When treated with a strong base like NaOH or NaOEt a ketone will ________
Have both the enolate & ketone presence at equilibrium
When treated with NaH or LDA the ketone will _______
Only form an enolate
Under acid-catalyzed condition a ketone or aldehyde will undergo halogenation at the _______ position
Alpha
What is the mechanism for acid-catalzyed halogenation?
- Acid-catalyzed enol formation (Proton transfer twice)
- Nucleophilic attack
- Proton transfer
With an unsymmetrical ketone the halogenation reaction will occur at the _________ position
The more substituated
When treated with a base like pyridine or Li2CO3 the halogenated ketone will __________
Undego elimination to form a double bond at the alpha position
When carboxylic acid are treated with PBr3 and a halogen it will __________
Undergo halogentation at the alpha position
What is the Hell-Volhard- Zelinsky reaction?
The halogenation of a carboxylic acid at the alpha position
When a ketone is treated with NaOH & a halogen like Br2 then it will ___________
Undergo halogenation at the alpha position
What is the mechanism for a base halogenation of a ketone?
- Deprotonated the alpha proton (proton transfer)
- Nucleophilic attack
When more than one alpha proton is present in a base halogenation what happens?
It occurs twice
When a methyl ketone is treated with NaOH,Br2 & H3O+ what will happen?
Wil form a carboxylic acid (Halofrom reaction)
When an aldehyde is treated with NaOH & water it ___________
Forms an aldol addition reaction
The product of an aldol addition reaction is always __________
A beta Hydroxy aldehyde or ketone
What is the mechanism for an aldol addition reaction?
- Proton transfer
- Nucleophilic attack
- Proton transfer