Blog 9: Potential Exam Questions

This blog assignment was to search for problems that could possibly appear on our Organic Chemistry II Exam 5. I found a problem that utilizes The Michael Reaction.

EXAMPLE QUESTION:
Draw the product of The Michael Reaction:

ANSWER:

The CN attaches where the C=C was located on the pentane ring.



Further examples of The Michael Reaction are located in Chapter 24, Section 24.8 (pp. 934) of our Organic Chemistry textbook.

References:

1. http://usm.maine.edu/~newton/Chy251_253/Lectures/MichaelAdditions/MichaelFS.html