Exam 11: Reactions of Alcohols

Provide the major organic product of the following.

Provide the structure of the major organic product in the reaction below.

Provide the major organic product of the following.

Provide the major organic product of the following reaction.

Classify the reaction below as an oxidation, a reduction, or neither. cis-pent-2-ene → pentane

What series of synthetic steps could be used to carry out the transformation shown below?

What type of linkage bonds the individual nucleotides together in DNA?

Provide the major organic product of the reaction shown.

What series of synthetic steps could be used to carry out the transformation shown below?

Provide the structure of the major organic product that results when 4-methyl-1-pentanol is treated with PBr₃.

Provide the structure of the major organic product in the reaction below.

Provide the name of the major organic product that results when trans-4-methylcyclohexanol is treated with thionyl chloride.

What is Zaitsev's rule?

Through what basic mechanism is 1-methylcyclohexanol converted to 1-bromo-1-methylcyclohexane upon treatment with HBr?

How can the electrophilicity of hydroxyls be increased? Suggest several specific ways.

Provide the major organic product of the following.

What series of synthetic steps could be used to prepare 1-bromopentane from 1-bromopropane?

Provide the major organic product of the reaction shown.

With close attention to stereochemistry, provide the major organic product for the reaction shown below.

Mark all the structures below that contain an inorganic ester. (More than one answer is possible.)