In your later biochemical studies you will find that carbon-carbon bonds are often made (in photosynthesis for example) by enzymatically catalyzed aldol additions. The reverse reaction is also common (called a retro-aldol reaction), particularly in glycolysis, the metabolism of glucose.
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The aldol reaction fits in easily with nature's chemistry. As John Cornforth, winner of the Nobel prize for chemistry in 1975 for his work on asymmetry and enzyme action, said: 'Nature, it seems, is an organic chemist having some predilection for the aldol and ... Mukaiyama's aldol addition uses a silyl enol ether...
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Stereoselectivity in the aldol reaction : The use of chiral and achiral oxazolines as their boron azaenolates. This article is not included in your ...
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The aldol reactions were carded out as described above except for the use of the enoxysilacyclobutane and the catalyst (1). The reaction was found to ...
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The CaCl2-promoted reaction was strongly affected by the solvent used (eq 2). The aldol reaction of 1a with 2a smoothly proceeded in DMSO, while the use of ...
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Practical and Highly Selective Oxazolidinethione-Based Asymmetric Acetate Aldol Reactions with Aliphatic Aldehydes ... Double Diastereoselective Acetate Aldol Reactions with Chiral N-Acetyl Thiazolidinethione Reagents ... Subsequent aldol reaction with ...
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[edit] Aldol reaction ... Sorry Physchim62, but I agree with Dr. Zak here, this is an article about a reaction that uses enolates. A detailed description of C-H acidity belongs in enolate, which should probably be split off from enol.
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The aldol reaction is a powerful means of forming carbon-carbon bonds in organic chemistry. Discovered independently by Charles-Adolphe Wurtz and Alexander Porfyrevich Borodin in 1872, the reaction ...
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Secondly, the present invention provides as embodiments of the method for aldol reaction in water, the use of an anionic surfactant as the surfactant and ...
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Hemiacetals, Acetals and the Aldol Reaction (2/7/96) ... The next reaction (the aldol reaction) we'll look at is one which makes a carbon-carbon bond. Such reactions are important in many contexts. One example is the photosynthetic conversion of CO2 to glucose, C6H12O6.
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