Question

I only need help with question #2 but insight into the rest of them would be very helpful.

Draw the structure of the aldehyde or ketone you could reduce to give the following a. benzyl alcohol b. 3,3-dimethyl-2-butanol c. 3-methyl-1-butanol d. cyclohexanol. 2. Draw the most stable conformation of the following molecule i.e draw the most stable chair. Use the convention for sugars. Why is it the most stable? 3. Are the cis and trans isomers of 4-tert-butyl cyclohexanol chiral? If not, what symmetry element do they possess? 4. Which isomer predominates in your reaction? Explain why? Is it the kinetic or thermodynamic product?

Answer 1

HOH2C,,,. //О. ..OH нонгс он но он HO он но this is the more stable conformation for the given structure because all the substitutents are in equitorial