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Topic: How would you reconvert camphor to borneol?  (Read 2505 times)

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Offline bamster

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How would you reconvert camphor to borneol?
« on: October 07, 2010, 05:12:47 PM »
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Re: How would you reconvert camphor to borneol?
« Reply #1 on: October 07, 2010, 05:32:41 PM »
How are the structures related?  What do you know about those two types of functional groups?
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Re: How would you reconvert camphor to borneol?
« Reply #2 on: October 08, 2010, 02:09:01 AM »
camphor is a ketone ,borneol is a alcohol.seems easily to do this conversion by reduction.

wiki has a more detailed  description,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borneol
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