Exam 3 Flashcards

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Fischer Esterification

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Creates an ester from Carboxylic acid

Uses: acid

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What does the Hoffman elimination do?

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Turns an amine into an alkene, and forms the less substituted alkene (anti-Zaitsev) product

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What does saponification do?

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Hydrolysis of ester under basic conditions to form carboxylate anions
Last step is irreversible

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What does hydrolysis of a nitrile in acid (or base) produce?

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Carboxylic acid (or carboxylate anion)

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What reagents synthesize nitriles?

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R-X and CN-

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What is the order of decreasing reactivity for the reagents used in Nu Acyl substitution rxns?

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Acid chloride > anhydride > ester ~ Carboxylic acid > amide

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What reagent is used to convert COOH to acid chloride?

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SOCl2 and heat

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What reagent is used to convert COOH to an anhydride?

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Heat

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What reagent is used to convert COOH to an ester?

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HOR’ and H+ cat.

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What reagent is used to convert COOH to an amide?

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NH2R’ and DCC

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What reagent is used to convert acid chloride to COOH?

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H2O and pyridine

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What reagent is used to convert anhydrides, esters, or amides to COOH?

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H2O and H+

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What reagent is used to convert ester to COOH?

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H2O and H+ (or base)

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What does the haloform reaction do?

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Forms a good LG (which leaves as the haloform)

Forms a carboxylate anion

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What three things allow you to preferentially make the kinetic enolate over the thermodynamic enolate?

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Strong, BULKY base (LDA)
Aprotic solvent (like THF)
Low temp (-78 C)
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What does Malonic ester synthesis do?

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Uses a Malonic ester to synthesize Carboxylic acid and CO2
1-Deprotonate to form enolate
2-Alkylation via R-X
3-Hydrolysis and loss of CO2 (or more if it is bonded to that LG)

16
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What does adetoacetic ester synthesis do?

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Makes methyl ketones

Steps are identical to Malonic ester synthesis

17
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What does Aldol reaction do?

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Forms C-C bonds using aldehydes or ketones as starting material
1-Form Nu enolate
2-Nu addition
3-Protonation

18
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When can decarboxylation occur?

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Whenever a carboxy group is bonded to the alpha carbon of another carbonyl group

19
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What do intramolecular Aldol reactions do?

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Form five and six member rings
1-Make enolate
2-Nu attacks
3-New C-C bond forms
4-H2O is lost and pi bond forms
20
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What does the Claisen reaction do?

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Makes new C-C bonds between the alpha carbon and carbonyl carbon of two esters via substitution
1-Make enolate
2-Nu addition and loss of LG
3-deprotonation and protonation

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What will a 1,6 diester make if it reacts with itself via a Claisen reaction?

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A five-member ring

22
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What does a Michael reaction do?

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1,4 addition of enolate to beta carbon of alpha, beta unsaturated carbonyl system
1-Enolate forms
2-Enolate attacks BETA carbon
3-Alpha carbon is protonated

23
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What does the Robinson Annulation do?

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Forms a six-member ring and three new C-C bonds
1-Michael reaction
2-the other enolate is formed
3-Nu attacks other carbonyl carbon to make ring
4-Beta oxygen gets protonated
5-dehydration and new pi bond forms between alpha and beta carbons (this step is irreversible)

24
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When using a diazonium salt what reagent is used to make phenol?

A

H2O

25
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When using a diazonium salt what reagent is used to make benzyl chlorides or bromides?

A

CuCl

CuBr

26
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When using a diazonium salt what reagent is used to make benzyl fluorides?

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HBF4

27
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When using a diazonium salt what reagent is used to make benzyl iodides?

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NaI or KI

28
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When using a diazonium salt what reagent is used to make benzene?

A

H3PO2

29
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When using a diazonium salt what reagent is used to make cyanobenzene?

A

CuCN

30
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How can you selectively make a primary amine?

A

Gabriel synthesis

31
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What are the steps of reductive amination of aldehydes and ketones?

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Replaces C=O by C-H and C-N
1-Nu of NH3 on carbonyl group forming IMINE
2-Oxygen leaves
3-Nitrogen is deprotonated

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What does the Hoffman elimination do?

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Converts an amine into a quaternary ammonium salt prior to beta elimination
1-make good LG (quat. Ammonium salt)
2-Use strong base to cause anti-periplanar E2 elimination

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Is the more substituted or less substituted pi bond formed in the Hoffman reaction and why?

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LESS.

The sterics of the bulky N(CH3)3 prevent abstraction of the more hindered hydrogen