Organic Chemistry II

Professor Carl C. Wamser

Chem 335 - Winter 2007

Chapter 15 Homework Answers

Carey, pages 682 - 689 :
Problems 15.18 - 48


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: