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Offline Angel_

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Reaction mechanisms
« on: January 28, 2012, 11:43:03 AM »
Hi guys,

I'm studying reaction mechanisms and I need some help.
I'm having troubles with an exercise:
I'm supposed to find a compound to be mixed with pentanal to produce 2-propyl-3-hydroxy heptanal.

I can write the structural formula for both the known compounds but I have no idea on how to find the missing one.

The book explains these mechanisms by examples so I don't know what to do in the general case. I think I'm missing some thing here.

Could someone explain how to do this (and the reason behind that) or point me to some useful resource?

Thank you very much.

PS: Sorry for my poor english, I'm not a native speaker
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Re: Reaction mechanisms
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2012, 11:50:23 AM »
Hint, aldol condensation.
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Re: Reaction mechanisms
« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2012, 05:51:35 PM »
Quote from: orgopete on January 28, 2012, 11:50:23 AM
Hint, aldol condensation.

Thank you very much. I think I have figured this out  :)
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