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Offline orgopete

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Re: Synthesis
« Reply #15 on: December 03, 2012, 02:45:55 AM »
To me, the product looks like the product of a cyclohexenyl Grignard addition to an aldehyde, about five steps.
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Re: Synthesis
« Reply #16 on: December 03, 2012, 02:53:29 AM »
Quote from: orgopete on December 03, 2012, 02:45:55 AM
To me, the product looks like the product of a cyclohexenyl Grignard addition to an aldehyde, about five steps.


I agree. I don't think the poster views the question in the correct way. I think the poster should have used some of these reagents, but not all of them, to get to the desired product.
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Re: Synthesis
« Reply #17 on: December 03, 2012, 04:14:22 AM »
Quote from: Kevsta on December 03, 2012, 02:20:45 AM
A radical on an sp2 is really unstable.

Right! I don't know what I was thinking.  ::)  THanks!
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