Question

Help part c and e please

ㄖ For the last step of your Nobel prize winning compound you need hexanoic acid can't purchase it or any other additional chemicals. You have alkyl lodides of any kind containing 6 or less carbons You also have diethyl malonate( ethyi acetoacetate (oooooc-oooc-ocm) a plenty along with the reagents even in the box below (we are considering her as reagent when r-adual n 2 equivalents of a reagent . assume you have 2 equivalents when r . (carboxylic acd with 6 carbons). The only problem is you have run out of money (budget cuts) and you heat as (a) Draw the skeletal structure of your starting material Marvin 3S Help

Answer 1

Drawn below is the complete synthetic scheme for the formation of hexanoic acid starting with ethyl acetoacetate.

1. NaOH,H2O,heat 2. H2O 1. NaoCH CH 2. H2O 1. NaoCH2CH3 2. C4Hgl heat HO