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Title: Need Help with understanding a Synthesis
Post by: ignorantsage on December 10, 2012, 09:54:06 PM

See link below

http://i.imgur.com/aEs8r.png

I know this forms but I dont know where to go from here, I assume an enolate forms as well, both look like electrophiles to me :\

http://i.imgur.com/bt7Ek.jpg

Title: Re: Need Help with understanding a Synthesis
Post by: Dan on December 11, 2012, 04:44:36 AM

What happens if you mix a primary amine with an aldehyde:

primary amine + aldehyde  :requil: ?

How will this product ? interact with an enolate.

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I assume an enolate forms as well, both look like electrophiles to me

An enolate is not an electrophile - the fact that it is anionic should immediately tell you that.

Note: This first step is a very classical named reaction.