Chem 335 - Winter 2002
Organic Chemistry II
Dr. Carl C. Wamser

Chapter 15 Homework Answers

Carey, pages 611 - 618:
Problems 15.17 - 15.43


Starting from cyclohexene, show how 1,6-hexanediol might be prepared.


Using multiple Grignard reactions, show how 4-ethyl-4-heptanol can be prepared using 1-propanol as the only carbon source.

Retrosynthetic analysis:

Synthetic sequence: