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karambinu

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Question About Ethanoic acid and Ethanal
« on: August 01, 2005, 10:02:50 AM »
The question is as follows: Ethanal and ethanoic acid both contain carbonyl groups but while ethanal undergoes addition reactions as expected from a carbonyl group , ethanoic acid does not. Why?

Do bonds and electronegativities play an important role in answering such a question?
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Re:About Ethanoic acid and Ethanal
« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2005, 03:51:08 PM »
help me pleaseeeee!!!!!!!!!
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Re:Question About Ethanoic acid and Ethanal
« Reply #2 on: August 01, 2005, 04:05:31 PM »
now can you see why?



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Re:Question About Ethanoic acid and Ethanal
« Reply #3 on: August 03, 2005, 05:22:52 PM »
That's a really really really vague hint, geodome.
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Re:Question About Ethanoic acid and Ethanal
« Reply #4 on: August 04, 2005, 02:16:26 AM »
focus on the left picture with the caption: small reasonance stabilisation
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"Say you're in a [chemical] plant and there's a snake on the floor. What are you going to do? Call a consultant? Get a meeting together to talk about which color is the snake? Employees should do one thing: walk over there and you step on the friggin� snake." - Jean-Pierre Garnier, CEO of Glaxosmithkline, June 2006
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