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Okay, so the way i like to handle these problems is as follows.
00:04
First, i just consider aldol reactions in general.
00:08
You know, i'm not even looking at this particular one, and what i would point out is the following.
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Right.
00:13
So if we've got, you know, a molecule like this and we've got an enolate that's going to react with it, for example, i just like to consider what the product of this would look like, right? so this is going to push down to reform the double bond.
00:35
We're going to attack at the carbonyl carbon there.
00:39
And this double bond is going to go up onto the oxygen.
00:46
Right.
00:46
So we're basically going to end up with this here and an alk -coxide.
00:52
Right.
00:53
And we're going to have a new bond to this carbon.
00:56
And that is going to go to something like this...