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Mechanism of three-membered lactone hydrolysis in base
I was reading up on the participation of neighboring functional groups and in the reaction below, I was wondering why hydroxide attacks the C–O bond instead of the carbonyl group of the lactone. ...
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Solvent shell collapse
In "advanced organic chemistry part A" book page:306&307 , the author uses the term 'solvent shell collapse' when talking about the reason for retention of conformation in tertiary ...
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A question about geometry of benzenetetrol
In the 3d conformation of 1,2,4,5 - benzenetetrol, how could i determine the direction to which hydrogen atoms of hydroxyl groups would point? and if there were tertiary butyl groups in positions 3 &...
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lowest energy conformation of butan-2,4-diol
Do the OH groups want to be furthest apart? or the CH3 groups?
I'm trying to determine the lowest energy conformation - and I don't know which group has the bigger steric effect?
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