Carbonyl group

In organic chemistry, a carbonyl group is a functional group with the formula , composed of a carbon atom double-bonded to an oxygen atom, and it is divalent at the C atom. It is common to several classes of organic compounds (such as aldehydes, ketones and carboxylic acids), as part of many larger functional groups. A compound containing a carbonyl group is often referred to as a carbonyl compound. The term carbonyl can also refer to carbon monoxide as a ligand in an inorganic or organometallic complex (a metal carbonyl, e.g. nickel carbonyl). The remainder of this article concerns itself with the organic chemistry definition of carbonyl, where carbon and oxygen share a double bond. Carbonyl compounds α,β-Unsaturated carbonyl compound In organic chemistry, a carbonyl group characterizes the following types of compounds: Other organic carbonyls are urea and the carbamates, the derivatives of acyl chlorides chloroformates and phosgene, carbonate esters, thioesters, la

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Carbocycles are essential building blocks for the synthesis of natural and synthetic bioactive compounds. Herein, we report the first example of palladium-catalyzed intramolecular carboalkynylation of non-activated olefins. Using activated carbonyl compounds as nucleophiles and an alkynyl bromide as an electrophile, the reaction gives access to cyclopentanes in 44-93% yield and one example of cyclohexane in 31% yield with simultaneous formation of a SP3-SP C-C bond. The reaction therefore combines ring formation with the introduction of a versatile triple bond for further functionalization. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Elsevier2015

Quantum calculations on the acid catalyzed rearrangements of norborn-5-en-2-one, 7-oxanorborn-5-en-2-one and 7-azanorborn-5-en-2-one - The electron-releasing effect of homoconjugated carbonyl group

Samuele Giani, Pierre Vogel

Protonation of norbom-5-en-2-one gives 6-oxo-2-norbomyl cation (2) as most stable C7H9O+ cation. Quantum calculations at B3LYP/6-31G(d) level (gas phase, 1 atm, 25 degrees C) predict a C-s-structure for 2 that can be represented as an intramolecular pi-complex (Dewar pi-complex model) of an acetylium ion with an alkene (cyclopent-3-enyl moiety). Isomeric 5-oxo-2-norbornyl (1) cation is calculated to be 16.7 kcal/mol less stable than 2. Part of the relatively high stability of 2 arises from the electron-releasing carbonyl group through n(C=O) sigma 2p(C+) hyperconjugation. This effect is also present in more stable 6-oxo-3-oxa (14) and 6-oxo-3-aza-2-norbornyl cation (19) as these ions are calculated to be 7.4 and 3.3 kcal/ mol, respectively, more stable than their 5-oxo isomers. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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In chemistry, an ester is a compound derived from an acid (organic or inorganic) in which the hydrogen atom (H) of at least one acidic hydroxyl group () of that acid is replaced by an organyl group

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Organic chemistry is a subdiscipline within chemistry involving the scientific study of the structure, properties, and reactions of organic compounds and organic materials, i.e., matter in its various

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In organic chemistry, a functional group is a substituent or moiety in a molecule that causes the molecule's characteristic chemical reactions. The same functional group will undergo the same or sim