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Introduction

"Monofunctional Carbonyl Compounds and Carbanion Chemistry", Professor Tim Gallagher

Carbanions and their derivatives

• Carbanions
• Organolithium reagents e.g. BuLi, LDA
• Grignard reagents
• Enol, enolate anion
• Keto-enol tautomerism
• Silyl enol ether (from Me₃SiCl with Et₃N), enamines, aza-enolates

Reactions of carbanions and monocarbonyls

• Stork enamine alkylation
• Aldol reaction, incl. silyl enol ether aldol reactions
• Nitroaldol reaction
• Reformatsky reaction: Jmol structure of a Reformatsky reagent
• Henry reaction (nitro aldol)
• Claisen condensation
• Mannich reaction and Mannich bases
• Haloform reaction
• E1cB elimination reaction