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organic reaction

TX123 · 2008-02-26 19:59:14

when you treat hexane-2,5-dione with NaOH do you get 3-methyl-2 cyclopentanone?

26-02-2008 7:59pm

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when you treat hexane-2,5-dione with NaOH do you get 3-methyl-2 cyclopentanone?

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#2 26-02-2008 8:19pm

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Wouldn't have thought so.

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#3 26-02-2008 9:31pm

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then what do you get

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TX123 wrote: »

then what do you get

3-methyl-2 cyclopentenone?

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#5 27-02-2008 6:56pm

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Are you sure you get a reaction? is OH- strong enough to deprotanate it? I imagine OH- doesn't act as a nucleophile? post up your suggested mechanism...?

Wait now, goign to revise my aldol chemistry, also i have a suspicion Baldwins rules may be useful for the ring closure?

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