Brennan Murphy

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Is there a selective opening of an unusual Grignard Reagent and the Furst-Plattner Rule?

I will soon attempt to conduct the reaction shown in the attached file. My question is regarding the formation of the Grignard nucleophile: how easy will the Grignard form from the chlorinated...

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Selective reduction of a nitrile to an aldehyde in the presence of an ester?

I'm attempting to reduce a aliphatic nitrile to an aldehyde, but not reduce a nearby ester. I've found the Stephens Reduction (though there is little recent literature) and other Pd/C methods with...

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