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Offline mnale94

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Synthesis of compound from oil
« on: November 20, 2011, 11:48:37 PM »
Ive run into a tough synthesis question, here it goes...

Starting with oil what reagents and mechanisms are required to get to 1-butyl-2-methyl-cyclopropane? Help me out! Thanks guys.
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Offline fledarmus

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Re: Synthesis of compound from oil
« Reply #1 on: November 21, 2011, 08:20:55 AM »
Which oil?

"Oil" in reference to petroleum chemistry, is a wide mixture of compounds whose only similarities are that they are almost all hydrocarbons and have approximately the same boiling points.
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Re: Synthesis of compound from oil
« Reply #2 on: November 21, 2011, 08:43:59 AM »
Like fledarmus: said, dropping the word 'oil' as a starting material is certainly a weird wording for an organic synthesis question.  At any rate, Wikipedia has a pretty lengthy article on internal cyclopropanations.  How you're supposed to get the appropriate starting material from petroleum is a task for you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermolecular_metal-catalyzed_carbenoid_cyclopropanations
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