Chapter 10: Q12P (page 513)
Question: Predict the products of the following reactions.
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
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(a)
(b)

(c)

(d)

(e)
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Chapter 10: Q12P (page 513)
Question: Predict the products of the following reactions.
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
Answer
(a)
(b)

(c)

(d)

(e)
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Grignard reagents react slowly with oxetane to produce primary alcohols. Propose a mechanism for this reaction, and suggest why oxetane reacts with Grignard reagents even though most ethers do not.

Ever since the Grignard reaction was discovered to react with ethylene oxide, chemists have experimented with other epoxides to test the limits of this reaction (which chemists call the scope of the reaction). The conclusion is that the success of the Grignard reaction is limited by the steric hindrance in the epoxide. One group published results of several Grignard reagents on one epoxide; one of their products is shown here. What Grignard reagent and what epoxide were used to make this compound? Comment on the steric requirements of the epoxide and the stereochemistry of the product.
Give systematic (IUPAC) names for the following diols and phenols.


For each synthesis, start with bromocyclohexane and predict the products. Assume that an excess of each reactant is added so that all possible reactions that can happen will happen.

Show how you would synthesize each tertiary alcohol by adding an appropriate Grignard reagent to a ketone.
(a)3-phenylhexane-3-ol (3ways)
(b) Ph3 COH
(c) 1-ethylcyclopentanol
(d) 2-cyclopentylpentan-2-ol
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