Topic: ether cleavage (Read 2198 times)

koolman · « **on:** May 25, 2016, 01:15:46 PM »

In the following reactions why no products is formed .

Why the products I tried to formed is not formed .

OCSaviour · « **Reply #1 on:** May 25, 2016, 01:56:37 PM »

Can you please post the mechanism that you used?

koolman · « **Reply #2 on:** May 25, 2016, 02:10:04 PM »

Ocsaviour
The mechanism would be like this

discodermolide · « **Reply #3 on:** May 25, 2016, 11:35:38 PM »

In your original post you have NaOMe as the reagent. In the mechanism HBr. So which did you use?

koolman · « **Reply #4 on:** May 26, 2016, 04:30:55 AM »

I posted a general mechanism

discodermolide · « **Reply #5 on:** May 26, 2016, 05:40:20 AM »

That mechanism uses HBr.
In your original post you have NaOMe as the reagent.
What is the difference between HBr and NaOMe?

koolman · « **Reply #6 on:** May 26, 2016, 07:06:29 AM »

Thats the only doubt I have.

OCSaviour · « **Reply #7 on:** May 26, 2016, 09:19:14 AM »

MeONa is a salt of weak acid and strong base. This should help you with your question now.