Chemistry > Aldehydes and Ketones > 5.0 Addition of Carbon Nucleophiles
Aldehydes and Ketones
1.0 Introduction
2.0 Methods of Preparation
2.1 Aldehydes by Oxidation of 1° Alcohol
2.2 Ketones by Oxidation of 2° Alcohol
2.3 Aldehydes by Reduction of Acyl Chlorides, Esters and Nitriles
2.4 Aldehydes from Acyl Halides
2.5 Aldehydes from Esters and Nitriles
2.6 By heating calcium salt of fatty acids
2.7 Hydroboration of Alkynes
2.8 Hydration of Alkynes
2.9 Gattermann-Koch Reaction
2.10 Gattermann Reaction
2.11 Freidel Crafts Acylation
2.12 By Oxidation of Alkyl Benzenes
2.13 Etard’s Reaction
3.0 Physical Properties
4.0 Relative Reactivities of Carbonyl Compounds
4.1 Relative Reactivities towards Nucleophilic addition
4.2 Rate of Nucleophilic Substitution
4.3 Reactivitiy Considerations
5.0 Addition of Carbon Nucleophiles
6.0 Haloform Reactions
7.0 Aldol Condensations
8.0 Claisen Condensation
9.0 Intramolecular Claisen Condensation
9.1 Dieckmann Condensation
9.2 Perkin Reaction
9.3 Mechanism:
9.4 Knoevenagel Reaction
9.5 Mechanism
10.0 Cannizzaro Reaction
11.0 Reformatsky Reaction
12.0 Addition of Nitrogen Nucleophiles
12.1 Mechanism and pH dependence of Rate of Reaction of Imine (>C = N-) Formation
12.2 Addition of Secondary Amines: Formation of Enamine
12.3 Mechanism for Enamine Formation
12.4 Addition of Ammonia: Reductive Amination
13.0 Addition of Oxygen Nucleophile
13.1 Addition of Water
13.2 Mechanism
13.3 Mechanism for Acid-Catalysed Hydrate Formation
13.4 Addition of Alcohols
13.5 Mechanism for the Reaction
13.6 Acid-Catalyzed Hemiacetal Formation
13.7 Base-Catalyzed Hemiacetal Formation
13.8 Acid-Catalyzed Acetal Formation
13.9 Acetals are Protecting Groups
14.0 Addition of Sulphur Nucleophile
15.0 Oxidation of Aldehydes And Ketones
15.1 Tollen’s Reagent
15.2 Fehling Solution
15.3 Benedict’s Solution
15.4 Schiff’s Reagent
15.5 Baeyer-Villiger Oxidation
15.6 Oppenauer Oxidation
15.7 Oxidation of Aldehydes And Ketones With $S{O_2}$
16.0 Reduction of Aldehyde and Ketones
16.1 Addition of Hydride Ion
16.2 Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley Reduction
16.3 The Wolf Kishner Reduction
16.4 Mechanism for Wolff-Kishner
16.5 Clemmensen Reduction
17.0 Other Reactions Of Aldehydes And Ketones
17.1 Wittig Reaction
17.2 Pinacol-Pinacolone Rearrangement
17.3 Benzoin Condensation
17.4 Schimdt Reaction
17.5 Benzilic acid Rearrangement
17.6 The Beckmann Rearrangement
17.7 Reaction of Formaldehyde with Ammonia
5.3 Addition of HCN
2.2 Ketones by Oxidation of 2° Alcohol
2.3 Aldehydes by Reduction of Acyl Chlorides, Esters and Nitriles
2.4 Aldehydes from Acyl Halides
2.5 Aldehydes from Esters and Nitriles
2.6 By heating calcium salt of fatty acids
2.7 Hydroboration of Alkynes
2.8 Hydration of Alkynes
2.9 Gattermann-Koch Reaction
2.10 Gattermann Reaction
2.11 Freidel Crafts Acylation
2.12 By Oxidation of Alkyl Benzenes
2.13 Etard’s Reaction
4.2 Rate of Nucleophilic Substitution
4.3 Reactivitiy Considerations
9.2 Perkin Reaction
9.3 Mechanism:
9.4 Knoevenagel Reaction
9.5 Mechanism
12.2 Addition of Secondary Amines: Formation of Enamine
12.3 Mechanism for Enamine Formation
12.4 Addition of Ammonia: Reductive Amination
13.2 Mechanism
13.3 Mechanism for Acid-Catalysed Hydrate Formation
13.4 Addition of Alcohols
13.5 Mechanism for the Reaction
13.6 Acid-Catalyzed Hemiacetal Formation
13.7 Base-Catalyzed Hemiacetal Formation
13.8 Acid-Catalyzed Acetal Formation
13.9 Acetals are Protecting Groups
15.2 Fehling Solution
15.3 Benedict’s Solution
15.4 Schiff’s Reagent
15.5 Baeyer-Villiger Oxidation
15.6 Oppenauer Oxidation
15.7 Oxidation of Aldehydes And Ketones With $S{O_2}$
16.2 Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley Reduction
16.3 The Wolf Kishner Reduction
16.4 Mechanism for Wolff-Kishner
16.5 Clemmensen Reduction
17.2 Pinacol-Pinacolone Rearrangement
17.3 Benzoin Condensation
17.4 Schimdt Reaction
17.5 Benzilic acid Rearrangement
17.6 The Beckmann Rearrangement
17.7 Reaction of Formaldehyde with Ammonia
HCN adds to aldehydes and ketones to form cyanohydrins. This reaction increases the number of carbon atoms in the reactant by one. In the first step of the reaction, the cyanide ion attacks the carbonyl carbon. The oxyanion then accepts a proton from an undissociated molecule of hydrogen cyanide.
Compared with other carbon nucleophiles, cyanide ion is relatively weak base $(p{K_a}of{\text{ }}HCN{\text{ }} = {\text{ }}9.14,{\text{ }}p{K_a}of{\text{ }}CHCH{\text{ }} = {\text{ }}25,{\text{ }}p{K_a}of{\text{ }}C{H_3}C{H_3}~50),$ which means cyano group is most easily eliminated from the addition product. Cyanohydrins, however, are stable because the neutral – OH group does not have sufficient driving force to eliminate the cyano group. But if the one group loses its proton, the cyano group is eliminated. Therefore, in basic solutions, a cyanohydrin is converted back to the carbonyl compound.
The addition of HCN to aldehydes and ketones is synthetically useful reaction because of subsequent reactions that can be carried out in the cyanohydrin. For example, acid catalysed hydrolysis of a cyanohydrin forms an $\alpha $ hydroxycaboxylic acid.
The catalytic addition of hydrogen to a cyanohydrin produces a $1^\circ $ amine with an OH group on the $\beta $-carbon.
