Carbonyl chemistry Flashcards
What are the simplest carbonyl compounds?
Formaldehydes
What is resonsance?
Movement of electrons
The more resonance form a compound has the more stable it is. True or False?
True
The net charge between resonance forms stays the same. True or False?
True
What are the physical properties of carbonyls?
Polar
High Bp
Soluble in water
Why are the peaks located where they are?
This is because of bond strength, the stronger the bond strength the harder it is to pull, so higher the wavenumber
What is the IR spectrum wavenumber for carbonyl compounds C=O?
1600-1800
When conjugation occurs, more resonance is formed? True or False?
TRUE
What is conjugation?
Reduces carbonyl (double bond) characters
The larger the k value to more the equilibrium lies to the products and vice versa for smaller k value. True or False?
True
Bulkier carbonyls are more stable than bulkier normal alcohol groups due to steric hendrice. True or False?
True
What type of reactions do carbonyl compounds undergo under the reagents of water, cyanide and alcohols?
Nucleophilic addition.
What is the name of the intermediate that is obtained from a nucleophilic addition of carbonyls with cyanide ion?
Cyanohydrin
What is obtained when aldehydes and ketones react with alcohols?
Hemiacetyle - the aldehyde hemiacetyle is favoured because there less steric hendrice (less bulkier) than a ketone hemiacetyle.
What type of reactions does organometallic and grignard reagent perform with carbonyls?
Addition reactions
What do grignard and organometallic reagents provide during the nucleophilic addition?
Provide R-
Name the two steps involved when carbonyl is reacted with organolithium reagent?
Step 1- nucleophilic addition
Step 2- Protonation (using aqueous acid)
What are the two good R groups and X leaving groups?
Alkyl and Alkenyl
Cl, Br , I