Chem 242 @ Dickinson

La fin du chapitre 22

Forgive the French; I got excited. Today was spent mainly on the acetoacetic ester synthesis, with an emphasis on the similarity of it to the malonic ester synthesis. Hopefully you can see that they are the same reaction with the difference of the remaining C=O being part of a carboxylic acid or part of a ketone. You should be able to do the mechanism for reactions of this sort, without knowing what they are called.

The beginning of class was a review of the haloform reaction of last week. Check your notes and make sure that you understand what is going on. As always, I don't particularly care if you remember that it is called the haloform reaction and that it forms a carboxylic acid but rather I care that you can figure out the mechanism. It's all about the arrows.

posted by DCChem @ 11:14 AM