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The Aldol and Claisen Reactions: Crash Course Organic Chemistry
Organic chemistry is a great workout for your brain, and to keep its energy up, your brain needs glucose. To maintain blood glucose levels, our bodies go through a process called gluconeogenesis, which involves the important type of...
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Aldol Reaction, Alpha Carbon Chemistry, Organic Chemistry
This video covers the carbon-carbon bond mechanism and also reviews the enol and enolate ion and the keto-enol tautomerism. Sal uses an aldehyde in the example, but a ketone could be used as well. As with all of the other videos, Sal...
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Khan Academy: Reactions of Ketones: Aldol Reaction
Introduces the mechanism called the Aldol Reaction, one of the most important reactions in organic chemistry because it is a powerful way to create a carbon-carbon bond. [11:40]