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The mechanism of carbonyl reductions and the experimental approach to understanding a reaction's stereochemistry.
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Module code and title: S304, The nature of chemistry
Item code: S304; 10
First transmission date: 1978
Published: 1978
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Duration: 00:24:00
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Producer: David Jackson
Contributor: Len Haynes
Publisher: BBC Open University
Keyword(s): Carbonyl reactions; Catalytic hydrogenation; Cyclohexanones; Equilibration; Fractional recrystallisation; Optical purity; Polarimeter; Reduction; Separation
Footage description: Footage - Reaction of lithium aluminium hydride with water (1'14"-1'38") - Diagram of reduction of 4-tertiary-butylcyclohexanone with lithium aluminium hydride (1'46"-2'29") - Reduction of 4-tertiary-butylcyclohexanone (2'30"-4'26") - Molecular model of 4-tertiary-butylcyclohexanone (4'31"-5'17") - Diagram of axial & equatorial hydroxyls and proportion of the two forms (5'31"-7'24") - 1957 paper on equilibration reaction by Eliel (7'37"-8'27") - Molecular model of cyclohexanone and lithium aluminium tertiary-butoxy-hydride (9'14"-11'43") - Molecular model of 4-tertiary-butylcyclohexanone and aluminium hydride ion (12'20"-13'34") - Diagram of 3-methylcyclohexanone (13'52"-14'06") - Reduction of 3-methylcyclohexanone (14'07"-15'30") - Model of 3-methylcyclohexanone (15'38"-16'18") - Diagram of mirror images of 3-methylcyclohexano (16'26"-17'39") - Time lapse film of recrystallisation. Resolution of alcohols to optical purity. Polarimeter. Vernier scale (17'40"-21'19").
Master spool number: 6HT/72115
Production number: 00525_1200
Videofinder number: 865
Available to public: no