BIOL 540 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Nucleophilic Addition, Primary Alcohol, Carbonation

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Organometallic reagents such as grignard reagents (rmgx)react with carbon dioxide (co2) to form carboxylic acids adds one carbon atom to the chain. Nitriles can be hydrolyzed under acidic or basic conditions, yielding a carboxylic acid and ammonia (or ammonium salts) adds a carbon atom to the carbon chain. Mechanism is very similar to the nucleophilic addition to a carbonyl (with aldehydes and ketones), with the exception that the c=o double bond is reformed, and the leaving group is eliminated. Carboxylic acids can be reduced with lithium aluminum hydride (lah) to their corresponding primary alcohols the nucleophilic addition of hydride (h-) to the carbonyl group and elimination of water as a leaving group. Ester formation carboxylic acids react with alcohols under acidic conditions to form esters and water. Carboxylic acids can react with reagents like thionyl chloride (socl2 ) to form acyl halide (rcox)

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