Question

Can someone please help me with this? :(

Answer 1

you should try to work these out yourself, first, then, post what've you got. It's a good learning experience and i'm sure someone will steer you in the right direction if it's wrong.

Answer 2

First, the ethanol adds itself to your structure. Then you get an alkane structure for \(A\). The reaction of bromine in UV light activates a radical reaction, you have your initiation, propagation and termination step(s). This follows Markovnikovs rule, addition of the bromine at the most stable position on the alkane molecule. Then, you have LDA, a strong base, deprotinates carbonyl group on your molecule. You should see how you get to product \(C\). That's where we're at now. Do you follow so far? I don't want to do all of it for you so you're going to have to put in some work yourself. That's how you learn.
You can continue and @aaronq or I can help if you are still having trouble.

Answer 3

@abb0t tbh, I just know very basic organic reactions. I do not know any of the advanced stuff that might be involved in this question. But I have to do it as part of a DLE. So, I'm ready to do it step by step if anyone guides me here about by what mechanism the reactions proceed.

I did not really understand how you would get an alkane structure for A. Shouldn't the alcohol react with the carboxyl -COOH group?

Answer 4

You have EtOH and \(H^+\)

Answer 5

do it as a DLE? i don't understand how someone can assign this to you if it hasn't been taught, does your book say nothing about any of these reagents?

Answer 6

Yes. :( I have the T.W.G Solomons book but I don't know where to start reading it to answer this question.

Answer 7

have you done the carbonyl chapters? if you have, you should have come across most of these reagents. Worst comes to worst you can start by googling the reagents and seeing how they would react with your molecule.

Answer 8

Part A should be probably chapter 5 (E1, E2, Sn2 and SN1 sections). Part B should be the chapter right after (radical reactons). Then going INTO part C, that should be chapters 7 or 8. LDA is after learning gringard reactions if i remember correctly.

C going into D and on SHOULD be around also chapters 7 or 8, starting to get into carbonyls, making alcohols into ketones, aldehydes, etc.,
C going to G and on should also be chapters 5 or 6.

It really depends on how your professor decides to structure his lectures. some professors skip and teach certain parts at different times.

Answer 9

Ok, I have tried to do from H ---> F. Would be really thankful if you can point out where I went wrong in this.

Answer 10

Though I believe hardly any part of it is correct. lol.