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Vocaloid:

Just need some help drawing out some of the intermediary steps in this dichlorocarbene reaction

Vocaloid:

I am given cyclohexene, which reacts w/ KOC(CH3)3 and CHCl3 to make |dw:1529692234669:dw|

Vocaloid:

like, I think that the double bond gets attacked by CCl2 but not sure how to get to that step

MARC:

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MARC:

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MARC:

we must remove the rather acidic proton from CHCl3 to give the carbanion. This loses chloride to give dichlorocarbene and insertion into cyclohexene gives the product.

Vocaloid:

makes sense, thank you ~

MARC:

yw! ^

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