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Synthesis is a purposeful execution of chemical reactions to obtain the desired product. Applies to long and complex natural product syntheses as much as to short one or two-step syntheses. This also covers synthetic problem sets and retrosynthetic analyses.

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When I read that piperazine $\ce{C4H10N2}$ is made with ammoniation of chloroethanes or alkanolamines, I wonder if few repeating units synthesis is a general trend for making polyenes and heterocyclic …
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How are phenols made?

Phenol is C6H6O, essentially adding one oxygen atom to benzene. The cumene process allows the sharing of two oxygen atoms between benzene and propene and make phenol and acetone. Similarly the similar …
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Make pyridine from furfural

I do not know whether the following is a real answer or not but Wikipedia 3-methylpyridine article shows 3-Methylpyridine is produced industrially by the reaction of acrolein with ammonia: :$$\ce{2 C …
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Make pyridine from furfural

Furfural $(\ce{C5H4O2})$ has been used as a feedstock for synthesis. Furfurylamine $(\ce{C5H7NO})$ is made from furfural. … Wikipedia pyridines production indicates that Chichibabin synthesis makes dihydropyridine, a pyridine derivative from acrolein, acetaldehyde and ammonia and byproducts are observed. …
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Getting 3,4-dimethylhex-3-ene from but-2-ene

To follow up on Mithoron's answer and to answer this question, a journal article covers alkylation of isobutane. Its graphical abstract seems to suggest that isobutene is acidified to a tertiary carbo …
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