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Chemistry Forums for Students => Organic Chemistry Forum => Topic started by: Rutherford on February 24, 2015, 10:31:37 AM
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I have some trouble understanding the meaning of the one-group and two-group disconnections. Why is the disconnection of an amide to acyl halide and amine a one-group, but the disconnection of and beta hydroxy amine (to epoxide and amine) a two group disconneciton?
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Im not sure but I think the difference is that you have one functional group in amide but two in the betha-hydroxy amine (hydroxy and amino group). I checked the Warren book but its not clear to me either
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Yeah, I can't find a straightforward definition.