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Offline LabRat01

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Chemeoseletivity?
« on: June 15, 2010, 08:34:36 AM »
If I have two alcohol groups in a molecule and my reaction oxidises only one of them, can that be called chemeoseletivity?
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Re: Chemeoseletivity?
« Reply #1 on: June 15, 2010, 09:27:20 AM »
Yes, possibly so, if you protect one alcohol group from oxidation and oxidize the other, it is a chemoselective reaction.
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