[Ch-Eng]

Hi,

Can anyone help me with the following:
I could like to write the mechanism of gas phase ozonolysis of VOCs.
e.g. alpha-terpinene + O3 = tetrahydrofura-2-none 3,[2 pentynyl] 4- methyl ? and/or 2,3 octanedione

I only have basic knowledge of organic chemistry and reading about ozonolysis from books did not help me. Please suggest the steps I should follow to be able to write the mechanism of VOCs ozonolysis as I have other compounds to do as well: ocimene, a-farnesene, linalool and myrcene.

Many thanks

[wildfyr]

Well, wikipedia has the mechanism right in the "ozonolysis" article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozonolysis#Reaction_mechanism. All your compounds are pretty much multi-alkenes, and ozonolysis will occur indiscriminately at each one. If you aren't able to follow the mechanism in that article, then there is quite a bit of organic chemistry which we can't really teach you over the internet. Perhaps this Khan academy video will help https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFj3HpdC4Uk

[Ch-Eng]

Thank you very much for replying .