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1. A Review of General Chemistry5h 5m
2. Molecular Representations1h 14m
3. Acids and Bases2h 46m
4. Alkanes and Cycloalkanes4h 19m
5. Chirality3h 39m
6. Thermodynamics and Kinetics1h 22m
7. Substitution Reactions1h 48m
8. Elimination Reactions2h 30m
9. Alkenes and Alkynes2h 9m
10. Addition Reactions3h 18m
11. Radical Reactions1h 58m
12. Alcohols, Ethers, Epoxides and Thiols2h 42m
13. Alcohols and Carbonyl Compounds2h 17m
14. Synthetic Techniques1h 26m
15. Analytical Techniques:IR, NMR, Mass Spect7h 3m
16. Conjugated Systems6h 13m
17. Ultraviolet Spectroscopy51m
18. Aromaticity2h 34m
19. Reactions of Aromatics: EAS and Beyond5h 1m
20. Phenols55m
21. Aldehydes and Ketones: Nucleophilic Addition4h 56m
22. Carboxylic Acid Derivatives: NAS2h 51m
23. The Chemistry of Thioesters, Phophate Ester and Phosphate Anhydrides1h 10m
24. Enolate Chemistry: Reactions at the Alpha-Carbon1h 53m
25. Condensation Chemistry2h 9m
26. Amines1h 43m
27. Heterocycles2h 0m
28. Carbohydrates5h 53m
29. Amino Acids4h 20m
30. Peptides and Proteins2h 42m
31. Catalysis in Organic Reactions1h 30m
32. Lipids 2h 50m
33. The Organic Chemistry of Metabolic Pathways2h 52m
34. Nucleic Acids1h 32m
35. Transition Metals6h 14m
36. Synthetic Polymers1h 49m

21. Aldehydes and Ketones: Nucleophilic Addition

Ketone and Aldehyde Synthesis Reactions

21. Aldehydes and Ketones: Nucleophilic Addition

Ketone and Aldehyde Synthesis Reactions: Videos & Practice Problems

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Problem

Provide the major product for the following reaction.

Product structure of a ketone derived from the previous reaction.

Product structure of an aldehyde derived from the previous reaction.

Product structure of a different ketone derived from the previous reaction.

Product structure of a ketone with a hydroxyl group derived from the previous reaction.

Problem

Provide the major product for the following reaction.

Structure of a ketone with a hydroxyl group attached to a cyclohexane ring.

Structure of an alcohol derived from a ketone with a hydroxyl group on a cyclohexane ring.

Structure of an aldehyde with a hydroxyl group attached to a cyclohexane ring.

Problem

Provide the chemical steps necessary for the following synthesis.

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Hey guys, let's take a look at the following practice question. Here it says, Provide the chemical steps necessary for the following synthesis. Here, these molecules look very similar to each other. They're just slightly different. Now, we have to think about what are the changes that occurred. What we're going to say here, initially we start out with a 1-2-3 carbon chain but now we have what? We still have 1, 2, 3, but now we have an additional carbon somehow. An additional carbon that is an aldehyde carbon. So, we have to think to ourselves, how do we get this? Now, there are a lot of different ways you could approach a problem like this. One way we can do it is we could have this carboxylic acid here. What I choose to do here is I use lithium aluminum hydride on it with the acid catalyst on the bottom. Remember, lithium aluminum hydride is a very strong reducing agent. What would it do? It would reduce this carboxylic acid to a primary alcohol. Now, we need to add an additional c

Problem

Provide the major product for the following reaction dealing with the Grignard reagent.

Structure of a ketone with a carbonyl group on a carbon chain.

Structure of an alcohol with a hydroxyl group on a carbon chain.

Structure of a ketone with a carbonyl group on a branched carbon chain.

Structure of a ketone with a carbonyl group on a symmetrical carbon chain.

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