Chapter 21: Q52 E (page 726)
21-52 How might you prepare the following compounds from butanoic acid?
- 1-Butanol
- Butanal
- 1-Bromobutane
- Pentanenitrile
- 1-Butene
- 2-Hexanone
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Chapter 21: Q52 E (page 726)
21-52 How might you prepare the following compounds from butanoic acid?


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21-34 Predict the product(s) and provide the mechanism for each reaction below.

How would you use the reaction of an amide with LiAlH4 as the key step in going from bromocyclohexane to (N,N-dimethylaminomethyl)cyclohexane? Write all the steps in the reaction sequence.

21-68 When a carboxylic acid is dissolved in isotopically labeled water, thelabel rapidly becomes incorporated into both oxygen atoms of the carboxylic acid. Explain.
21-33 Predict the product(s) and provide the mechanism for each reaction below.

Draw structures corresponding to the following names:
(a) Phenyl benzoate
(b) N-Ethyl-N-methylbutanamide
(c) 2,4-Dimethylpentanoyl chloride
(d) Methyl 1-methylcyclohexanecarboxylate
(e) Ethyl 3-oxopentanoate
(f) Methyl p-bromobenzenethioate
(g) Formic propanoic anhydride
(h) cis-2-Methylcyclopentanecarbonyl bromide
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