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Organic chemistry question Anonymous Wed Jul 23 02:39:21 2014 No.6660010 [View]
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Any chemists here?

Why can alkyllithium compounds react with carboxylic acids to form ketones, when Grignard reagents will just give an acid-base reaction? And why isn't the product a tertiary alcohol, like when reacting with esters?

Anonymous Wed Jul 23 02:36:26 2014 No.6660009 [DELETED]

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Any chemists here?

Why can alkyllithium compounds react with carboxylic acids to form ketones, when Grignard reagents will just give an acid-base reaction? And why isn't the product a tertiary alcohol, like when reacting with esters?

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