Organic Chemistry II

Professor Carl C. Wamser

Chem 335 - Winter 2005

Chapter 15 HW Answers

Carey, pages 657 - 664 :
Problems 15.17 - 44


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


2. 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: