solution check for orgo II problems
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@imqwerty *
oh whoops, thank you
1,2,4 seem alright but check the mechanism for thhe third one again It's Baeyer villiger oxidation reaction and in between this reaction you have this phase where one group has to migrate to the adjacent oxygen and in this question it has to be the phenyl group which migrates Migratory altitude: H>phenyl>3° alkyl>2°alkyl>1°alkyl>methyl
how did you compare between PhLi and MeLi?
oh I think my professor told us that more s character --> more nucleophilic? :/
But the phenol C is sp2 which has more s character than the C in Me which is sp3
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