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Truong, Thai Phat; Bailey, Sophia J.; Golliher, Alexandra E.; Monroy, Erika Y.; Shrestha, Uttar K.; Maio, William A. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2018
The ability of certain organometallic reagents to react via 1,2- or 1,4-addition to an a,ß-unsaturated ketone is a fundamental example of regioselectivity at the second-year undergraduate organic level. The following two experiments were designed to demonstrate this preference by exploiting carvone as an inexpensive chiral, nonracemic substrate.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Organic Chemistry, Science Experiments, Scientific Concepts