Organic Chemistry
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Author: T. W. Graham Solomons, Craig B. Fryhle, Scott A. Snyder
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Chapter 15, Problem 50P
The tert-butyl group can be used as a blocking group in certain syntheses of
(a) How would you introduce a tert-butyl group?
(b) How would you remove it?
(c) What advantage might a tert-butyl group have over a −-
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