Organic Chemistry (9th Edition)
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Author: Leroy G. Wade, Jan W. Simek
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 14, Problem 14.50SP
Propylene oxide is a chiral molecule. Hydrolysis of propylene oxide gives propylene glycol, anolhor chiral molecule.
- a. Draw the enantiomers of propylene oxide.
- b. Propose a mechanism for the acid-catalyzed hydrolysis of pure (R)-propylene oxide.
- c. Propose a mechanism for the base-catalyzed hydrolysis of pure (R)-propylene oxide.
- d. Explain why the acid catalyzed hydrolysis of optically active propylene oxide gives a product with lower enantiomeric excess and a rotation opposite that of the product of the base-catalyzed hydrolysis.
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