Organic Chemistry
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Author: William H. Brown, Brent L. Iverson, Eric Anslyn, Christopher S. Foote
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Chapter 16, Problem 16.47P
The base-promoted rearrangement of an α-haloketone to a
It is proposed that NaOH first converts the a-haloketone to the substituted cyclopropanone shown in brackets and then to the sodium salt of cyclopentanecarboxylic acid.
- (a) Propose a mechanism for base-promoted conversion of 2-chlorocyclohexanone to the proposed intermediate.
- (b) Propose a mechanism for base-promoted conversion of the proposed intermediate to sodium cyclopentanecarboxylate.
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