4-hydroxypentanal reacts with one equivalent of methanol to form a cyclic acetal.
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Explanation:
The equation is given as:
CH3CHOHC2H4CHO + CH3OH --> CYCLIC ACETAL + H2O
This above equation is carried out in the presence of a strong acid. There are five mechanisms employed and they are:
Step 1:
Initial formation of the hemiacetal which takes several steps
Step 2:
Addition of a proton. The hemicetal is protonated on the hydroxyl group (-OH group)
Step 3:
As seen a bond is broken to give the H2O molecule and a resonance stabilized cation.
The carbonyl group on the cation is enriched with the oxygen-18 got from the H2O molecule as seen in the mechanism.
Step 4:
An attraction occurs between electrophile and nucleophile i.e the stabilised cation and the lone paids of the methanol.
Step 5:
Finally, a proton (+) is removed from the molecule by a lone pair of electron on the methanol.
Attached are the Steps 1 - 5 mechanism below
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In this case, we can show how the empirical formula is found by following the shown below procedure:
1. Compute the moles of carbon in carbon dioxide as the only source of carbon at the products:
2. Compute the moles of hydrogen in water as the only source of hydrogen at the products:
3. Compute the mass of oxygen by subtracting the mass of both carbon and hydrogen from the 0.4647-g sample:
4. Compute the moles of oxygen by using its molar mass:
5. Divide the moles of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen by the moles of oxygen (smallest one) to find the subscripts in the empirical formula:
6. Search for the closest whole number (in this case multiply by 2):
Moreover, the empirical formula suggests this compound could be carboxylic acid since it has two oxygen atoms, nevertheless, this is not true since the molar mass is 222.27 g/mol, therefore, we should compute the molar mass of the empirical formula, that is:
Which is about three times in the molecular formula, for that reason, the actual formula is:
It suggest that the compound has a highly oxidizing character due to the presence of oxygen, therefore, we cannot predict the distribution of the functional groups as it could contain, carboxyl, carbonyl, hydroxyl or even peroxi.
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