Organic Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
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Author: Janice G. Smith
Publisher: MCG
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Chapter 20, Problem 20.67P
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Synthesis of mestranol from estradiol is to be devised.

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The full form of PCC is pyridinium chlorochromate. It acts as a mild oxidizing agent. It oxidizes primary alcohols into aldehyde and secondary alcohol into ketones.

Alkyl lithium is an organolithium reagent. It contains carbon-lithium bond. It is used in organic synthesis to transfer an organic group to substrate.

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