Videos tagged with “alpha-carbon”

jOeCHEMists, now that we've explored more of the awesome chemistry we can do at the carbonyl position, we have to look no further than the next door neighbor for our next challenge: the alpha carbon. We'll start things off by exploring alpha deprotonation, why it works and how it enables us to generate a new class of nucleophiles that we were initially exposed to with keto-enol tautomerism at the end of OChem I. After learning how to make enolates and enols, we're going to tackle a group of reactions that allow us to make carbon-carbon bonds. There's so much cool chemistry in this series, and it's where I personally discovered that I wanted OChem in my future/life. I hope you feel the same. Leddoit.