Named reagents and the transformation they perform, one reaction per card.
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- Grignard reagent (RMgX) reacts with
- aldehydes to form secondary alcohols (primary alcohol only with formaldehyde) and ketones to form tertiary alcohols
- What does Grignard (RMgX) with CO2 followed by aqueous workup form?
- carboxylic acid (RCO2H)
- Wittig reaction (ylide plus carbonyl) produces
- alkene with predictable geometry
- Friedel-Crafts alkylation requires
- benzene, an alkyl halide (secondary/tertiary preferred; primary halides can rearrange), and a Lewis acid catalyst (AlCl3)
- Friedel-Crafts acylation produces
- aromatic ketone from benzene and acyl chloride with AlCl3
- HBr with alkene in presence of peroxide gives
- anti-Markovnikov product (Br on less substituted carbon)
- HX (HCl, HBr) with alkene without peroxide gives
- Markovnikov product (H on less substituted, X on more substituted carbon)
- Hydroboration-oxidation of alkene produces
- syn, anti-Markovnikov alcohol (OH on the less substituted carbon, added on the same face as boron)
- Oxymercuration (Hg(OAc)2, H2O then NaBH4) produces
- Markovnikov alcohol from alkene
- Catalytic hydrogenation (H2 with Pt, Pd, or Ni) of alkene gives
- saturated alkane
- Lindlar catalyst is used for
- selective reduction of alkynes to cis-alkenes
- LiAlH4 reduces
- carbonyl compounds, carboxylic acids, esters, and alkyl halides to alcohols or alkanes
- NaBH4 reduces
- aldehydes and ketones to primary and secondary alcohols respectively
- Jones oxidation (CrO3 in H2SO4 and acetone) converts
- primary alcohols to carboxylic acids and secondary alcohols to ketones
- PCC (pyridinium chlorochromate) oxidizes
- primary alcohols to aldehydes and secondary alcohols to ketones without over-oxidation