Chapter 10
Alcohols and Phenols
![Structure and Nomenclature of Alcohols and Phenols](https://cloudfront.jove.com/files/media/science-education/science-education-thumbs/11920.jpg)
Alcohols are one of the most important functional groups in organic chemistry. The name of alcohol comes from the hydrocarbon from which it is…
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Alcohols are organic compounds in which a hydroxy group is attached to a saturated carbon. Phenols are a class of alcohols containing a hydroxy group…
![Preparation of Alcohols via Addition Reactions](https://cloudfront.jove.com/files/media/science-education/science-education-thumbs/11923.jpg)
The acid-catalyzed addition of water to the double bond of alkenes is a large-scale industrial method used to synthesize low-molecular-weight…
![Preparation of Alcohols via Substitution Reactions](https://cloudfront.jove.com/files/media/science-education/science-education-thumbs/11771.jpg)
Alcohols can be synthesized from alkyl halides via nucleophilic substitution reactions. The highly polar carbon-halogen bond in the substrate makes…
![Alcohols from Carbonyl Compounds: Reduction](https://cloudfront.jove.com/files/media/science-education/science-education-thumbs/11925.jpg)
Reduction is a simple strategy to convert a carbonyl group to a hydroxyl group. The three major pathways to reduce carbonyls to alcohols are…
![Alcohols from Carbonyl Compounds: Grignard Reaction](https://cloudfront.jove.com/files/media/science-education/science-education-thumbs/11926.jpg)
Grignard reagents are one of the most commonly used reagents used to synthesize alcohols from carbonyl compounds. Grignard reagents are…
![Preparation of Diols and Pinacol Rearrangement](https://cloudfront.jove.com/files/media/science-education/science-education-thumbs/11928.jpg)
Compounds bearing two hydroxyl groups are known as diols. When the hydroxyl groups are located on adjacent carbon atoms, the diols are called vicinal…
![Conversion of Alcohols to Alkyl Halides](https://cloudfront.jove.com/files/media/science-education/science-education-thumbs/11929.jpg)
This lesson delves into the conversion of alcohols to corresponding alkyl halides and the mechanism of action for different reagents. Typically, the…
![Spatial Separation of Molecular Conformers and Clusters](https://cloudfront.jove.com/files/thumbs/51137_t.png)
Gas-phase molecular physics and physical chemistry experiments commonly use supersonic expansions through pulsed valves for the production of cold…
![Retropinacol/Cross-pinacol Coupling Reactions - A Catalytic Access to 1,2-Unsymmetrical Diols](https://cloudfront.jove.com/files/thumbs/51258_t.png)
Unsymmetrical 1,2-diols are hardly accessible by reductive pinacol coupling processes. A successful execution of such a transformation is bound to a…
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Sigma's Non-specific Protease Activity Assay - Casein as a Substrate
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Proteases break peptide bonds. In the lab, it is often necessary to measure and/or compare the activity of proteases. Sigma's non-specific protease…