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Chemistry Forums for Students => Organic Chemistry Forum => Topic started by: emifarmer on January 27, 2022, 10:42:38 PM
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Hi. I enjoy doing organic chemistry exercises but lately I've been trying to figure out the answer of this one. Can anybody help me?
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I suggest you eliminate the alcohol and make cis-dihydroxylation of the cyclohexene with OsO4.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmium_tetroxide
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emifarmer,
It is often profitable to think backward from the product one step at a time. The formal name for this is retrosynthetic analysis.