Victor you are a life saver ! I did not know that the demercuration step scrambled all stereospecificity and just assumed there could only be anti stereoisomers for the final products. I greatly appreciate it.
Well, it doesn't scramble all stereochemistry, just the atom with the H, but yeah, it renders the entire reaction non-stereospecific. Also, the mechanism the way we show it is such a blasphemy, but no reason to overcomplicate it needlessly 😂
It's definitely a hard one. And you know the "best" part? Nobody actually uses this reaction! You'll be hard-pressed to find it in any recent (and I mean last 20 years or so) literature! The intermediates are extremely toxic, the reaction itself it really moody and sometimes just doesn't wanna work because you looked at it funny... sigh. I hope one day we ditch that archaic nonsense. But alas, here we are and you do need to know it for the test. So, hopefully, this video helped you to get a better grip 😅
This is so far the best video I have seen on the mechanism of oxymercuration and demercuration reaction
Thank you! Glad my video helped.
You're amazing sir! Very very helpful!
Victor you are a life saver ! I did not know that the demercuration step scrambled all stereospecificity and just assumed there could only be anti stereoisomers for the final products. I greatly appreciate it.
Well, it doesn't scramble all stereochemistry, just the atom with the H, but yeah, it renders the entire reaction non-stereospecific. Also, the mechanism the way we show it is such a blasphemy, but no reason to overcomplicate it needlessly 😂
Thank you so much 🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓
Most welcome 😊
youre great! i hate oxymercuration :)
It's definitely a hard one. And you know the "best" part? Nobody actually uses this reaction! You'll be hard-pressed to find it in any recent (and I mean last 20 years or so) literature! The intermediates are extremely toxic, the reaction itself it really moody and sometimes just doesn't wanna work because you looked at it funny... sigh. I hope one day we ditch that archaic nonsense. But alas, here we are and you do need to know it for the test. So, hopefully, this video helped you to get a better grip 😅
Oh my god, thanks for this video, please don't stop, keep going you're a great professor ( ˘ ³˘)♥
Thank you! I'm currently taking a small break after the spring semester, but I'm going to resume posting new videos very soon!