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Organic Chemistry — Practice Set 6

The chemistry of the carbonyl group: nucleophilic addition to aldehydes and ketones (Grignard and hydride additions, cyanohydrins, hydrates), acetals and their use as protecting groups, imines and enamines, reductive amination, the Wittig reaction, oxidation and reduction of carbonyls, enols and enolates, keto–enol tautomerism, α-halogenation and the haloform reaction, the aldol and Claisen condensations, conjugate (Michael, 1,4-) addition, and the carboxylic acids and their derivatives with the addition–elimination (nucleophilic acyl substitution) mechanism and reactivity order. Structures and mechanisms are shown in inline notation.