Organic Chemistry
11th Edition
ISBN: 9781118133576
Author: T. W. Graham Solomons, Craig Fryhle
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
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Chapter 8, Problem 10PP
PRACTICE PROBLEM
(a) Outline a likely mechanism for the solvomercuration step of the ether synthesis just shown.
(b) Show how you would use solvomercuration–demercuration to prepare tert-butyl methyl ether.
(c) Why would one use Hg(O2CCF3)2 instead of Hg(OAc)2?
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