Illustrated Glossary of Organic Chemistry
Bond
change inventory:
A list of
bonds
to form and break during a
mechanism
or
synthesis
problem. A useful tool to help figure out "what to do next".
A
bond
change inventory in the
Fischer esterification
reaction mechanism
. At this point in the
mechanism
, we need to convert one
OH
to a
carbonyl group
, lose one
OH group
, and
deprotonate
the
OCH
3
group
.
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