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Chemistry Forums for Students => Organic Chemistry Forum => Topic started by: sharbeldam on May 01, 2021, 11:00:29 AM
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Thank you
If you allow me another question because I don’t wanna open a new topic , I have this antibiotic flavipucin (if you can google it cause I can’t share pic), and it’s reacting with CH3OH/H+, it has double bond and epoxide which technically both can react with that, if the reaction is 1:1 , how do I know if methanol will react with epoxide or double bond?
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One must look at differences in reactivity of said groups on the given molecule.
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Couldn’t find it. That’s why I asked for help
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Couldn’t find it. That’s why I asked for help
Epoxides tend to be quite reactive due to ring strain.
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https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Flavipucine#section=Structures
Flavipucine? You could try using SciFinder and drawing out possible reactions. There might be a more efficient way.