Chapter 22: 54E (page 752)
Fill in the reagents a–c that are missing from the following scheme:

Short Answer
The reagents are:
(a) NaOC2H5/CH3I
(b) H3O+/Heat ,and
(c) LDA/CH3I.
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Chapter 22: 54E (page 752)
Fill in the reagents a–c that are missing from the following scheme:

The reagents are:
(a) NaOC2H5/CH3I
(b) H3O+/Heat ,and
(c) LDA/CH3I.
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If methanol rather than water is added at the end of a Hell–Volhard–Zelinskii reaction, an ester rather than an acid is produced. Show how you would carry out the following transformation, and propose a mechanism for the ester forming step.
The two optically beta-keto acids below were decarboxylated using the conditions typically used for the acetoacetate synthesis. Will the ketone products also be optically active? Provide the complete mechanism to explain your answer.

How would you prepare the following compounds using either an Acetoacetic ester synthesis or a malonic ester synthesis?

Although 2-substituted 2-cyclopentenones are in a base-catalyzed equilibrium with their 5-substituted 2-cyclopentenone isomers (Problem 22-55), the analogous isomerization is not observed for 2-substituted 2-cyclohexenones. Explain.

Amino acids can also be prepared by a two-step sequence that involves Hell–Volhard–Zelinskii reaction of a carboxylic acid followed by treatment with ammonia. Show how you would prepare leucine, (CH3)2CHCH2CH(NH2)CO2H, and identify the mechanism of the second step.
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