ChemistryMediumHigh School (11–12)Organic Compounds with Functional Groups › Aldehydes, Ketones and Carboxylic Acids
Aldol, Cannizzaro, or neither?
You will finish a program that predicts what happens to an aldehyde in dilute and in concentrated sodium hydroxide. It also counts the products of a crossed aldol reaction.
The idea. A compound with an alpha hydrogen does the aldol reaction in dilute base. An aldehyde with no alpha hydrogen does the Cannizzaro reaction in concentrated base. A ketone with no alpha hydrogen does neither.
Your tasks.
- Complete
reaction(alpha_h, is_aldehyde)so that it returns "aldol" when there is an alpha hydrogen, "cannizzaro" for an aldehyde with none, and "none" otherwise. - Complete
crossed_products(a, b)so that it returns the number of aldol products of two compounds, where each argument is True when the compound has an alpha hydrogen.
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