Aldol Condensation vs Claisen Condensation MADE SUPER SIMPLE!! (PART 1)

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Literally the first time I have ever understood organic chem

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Yo I’m listening to this on half speed and you are dropping 💎. Thank you for clarifying difference between the oxygen collapsing to form the claisen or protonating the oxygen to form the Aldol.; EACH determined on the existence of a good leaving group. Thank you!!!!!!!

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At 0:19, why did you deprotonate that hydrogen and not the one on the aldehyde? Or does it not matter?

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The carbon that is deprotonated is stabilized with resonance, which lowers the negative charge density which is more stable. Deprotonation the aldehyde leaves you with a carbon anion with highly local charge density which is very unstable

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@@sciencesimplified3890 Hello can you clarify more if you have time. From my understanding they both have resonance. So it also because we would prefer the nucleophile to be surrounded by more EDG so we dont deprotonate the aldehyde since it has less EDG?

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