Organic Chemistry
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ISBN: 9781118875766
Author: T. W. Graham Solomons, Craig B. Fryhle, Scott A. Snyder
Publisher: WILEY
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Chapter 16, Problem 16PP
Practice Problem 16.16
(a) Show how you might prepare lactic acid from acetaldehyde through a cyanohydrin intermediate.
(b) What stereoisomeric form of lactic acid would you expect to obtain?
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Chapter 16 Solutions
Organic Chemistry
Ch. 16 - PRACTICE PROBLEM 16.1 (a) Give IUPAC substitutive...Ch. 16 - Prob. 2PPCh. 16 - Prob. 3PPCh. 16 - Practice Problem 16.4
Provide the reagents and...Ch. 16 - Prob. 5PPCh. 16 - Prob. 6PPCh. 16 - Prob. 7PPCh. 16 - Prob. 8PPCh. 16 - Prob. 9PPCh. 16 - Practice Problem 16.10
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Ch. 16 - Prob. 11PPCh. 16 - Practice Problem 16.12
What product would be...Ch. 16 - Prob. 13PPCh. 16 - Practice Problem 16.14
Dihydropyran reacts readily...Ch. 16 - Practice Problem 16.15 Show how you might use...Ch. 16 - Practice Problem 16.16 (a) Show how you might...Ch. 16 - Practice Problem 16.17
In addition to...Ch. 16 - Practice Problem 16.18
Triphenylphosphine can be...Ch. 16 - Prob. 19PPCh. 16 - PRACTICE PROBLEM 16.20
Give the structure of the...Ch. 16 - PRACTICE PROBLEM 16.21 What would be the major...Ch. 16 - Prob. 22PCh. 16 - 16.23 Write structural formulas for the products...Ch. 16 - Give structural formulas for the products formed...Ch. 16 - 16.25 What products would be obtained when...Ch. 16 - Predict the major organic product from each of the...Ch. 16 - 16.27 Predict the major product from each of the...Ch. 16 - 16.28 Predict the major product from each of the...Ch. 16 - Prob. 29PCh. 16 - 16.30 Write detailed mechanisms for each of the...Ch. 16 - Prob. 31PCh. 16 - Prob. 32PCh. 16 - Show how you would convert benzaldehyde into each...Ch. 16 - 16.34 Show how ethyl phenyl ketone could be...Ch. 16 - Show how benzaldehyde could be synthesized from...Ch. 16 - Give structures for compounds AE. Cyclohexanol...Ch. 16 - Prob. 37PCh. 16 - Prob. 38PCh. 16 - Prob. 39PCh. 16 - Prob. 40PCh. 16 - Prob. 41PCh. 16 - Prob. 42PCh. 16 - 16.43 The structure of the sex pheromone...Ch. 16 - Provide reagents that would accomplish each of the...Ch. 16 - Write a detailed mechanism for the following...Ch. 16 - Prob. 46PCh. 16 - Dutch elm disease is caused by a fungus...Ch. 16 - Prob. 48PCh. 16 - Compounds W and X are isomers; they have the...Ch. 16 - Compounds Y and Z are isomers with the molecular...Ch. 16 - Compound A (C9H18O) forms a phenylhydrazone, but...Ch. 16 - Compound B (C8H12O2) shows a strong carbonyl...Ch. 16 - Prob. 53PCh. 16 - Prob. 54PCh. 16 - Prob. 55PCh. 16 - (a) What would be the frequencies of the two...Ch. 16 - Prob. 57PCh. 16 - Prob. LGP
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