Chemical Reactions, Mechanisms, Organic Spectroscopy

This time of year one of the most common problems students come to me with is how to do synthesis problems. Like this:  There’s a lot o...

Wittig Reaction The Wittig Reaction allows the preparation of an alkene by the reaction of an aldehyde or ketone with the ylide gener...

Williamson Synthesis This method is suitable for the preparation of a wide variety of unsymmetric ethers. The nucleophilic substituti...