Natural Science Forum / Chemistry / Organic Synthesis / December 2003

    Are there any mechanisms/syntheses where a tertiary alcohol is
dehydrated in an non-carbocationic pathway?  For instance, instead of
the "usual"
    R   CH3

well, how to get "4-chloro-3,5-dimethylphenol" from benzene or
1,3-dimethylbenzene? thanks to everyone who can help me on it.
email to ironmouth@263.net
with title: symthesis approach!

i'm trying to dig up some basic info on polyethylene glycol for a
friend who doesn't know a thing about chemistry. i'm thinking you
could use ethylene oxide to synthesize it so...
what reagents would one use to open ethylene oxide in order to

Hey all, I have not posted in here for a wile but I have been wondering, I
finally found a interesting route to the nitrostyrene. The procedure looks
accurate enough, But sadly that ratios they are using are to small, In
theory the ratio or mmol can up scaled up right? I was ...