00:01
Okay, so we have two molecules here, and we are reacting them with potassium permanganate, kmn -o -4.
00:09
Right, so this oxidizing agent reacts with benzene rings.
00:14
Well, it doesn't react with benzene rings.
00:16
It reacts with substituents on the benzene ring.
00:18
But it does this by oxidizing alcohol chains at the benzylic position.
00:25
But it only attacks the benzene, so it's only going to target alcohol chains, as far as you know right now.
00:30
Right um but um that alcohol chain at the benzillic position requires there to be at least one benzilic hydrogen so you need one c h bond um that is at the benzill position in order for the potassium permanganate to basically tear the entire chain to shreds rip the whole thing off and replace it with a carboxyl acid at the benzile position right so you're looking for benzilic hydrogens so this isopropylopropyl group in a has one benzodia hydrogen.
01:03
So it doesn't matter if there's one, two, or three, it's going to tear the entire chain.
01:07
So you're going to cleave this entire chain off here.
01:09
Your nitro group is going to be untouched.
01:13
So you're going to leave that nitro group there.
01:16
But you're going to replace the isopropal group with a c -o -o -h.
01:22
So you're going to get that molecule there...