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Introduction In today’s post, I will describe the oxidation of benzoin to benzil using nitric acid. This reaction is a classic in organic synthesis and allows for the preparation of benzil in good yields. The overall reaction scheme is the following: Drawing a detailed mechanism for this oxidation is not straightforward, and it is quite …
In today’s post, I will revisit the thiamine-catalyzed synthesis of benzoin from benzaldehyde, which I already presented in my previous post. I will describe some variation of the procedure I presented an the improvements in yield I was able to achieve.
In this post, I will present the synthesis of Benzoin through a thiamine-catalyzed condensation reaction between two benzaldehyde molecules.
In this post, I will present the preparation of 5-iodovanillin by electrophilic aromatic substitution of vanillin with iodine.
In this post, I will present the synthesis of dibenzalacetone from the double aldol condensation between benzaldehyde and acetone.
In this post, I will describe the preparation of phthalimide from the reaction of phthalic anhydride with urea.
In the present post, I will describe the preparation of ethyl formate by the Fischer esterification reaction between ethanol and formic acid in the presence of sulphuric acid.
In the present post, I will describe the aldol condensation reaction between vanillin and methyl-ethyl-ketone yielding the kinetic condensation product (E)-1-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)pent-1-en-3-one.
In this post, I will describe the preparation of Azo Violet (Magneson I) an azo-dye that can be used to test for the presence of magnesium ions.
In this post I will describe the preparation of (E)-4-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)but-3-en-2-one from the aldolic condensation of Vanillin and acetone.