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Originally Posted by O.city
I just wasn't good at it and had to work hard in it.
I have an close friend that's a mechanical engineer who's just a Calc wiz
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Here was a question from my recent final. I got the answer right, but it just pissed me off:
Which one of the following compounds adds twice to this molecule:
A. MeMgBr (a Grignard)
B. Me2CuLi (an organocuprate)
C. DIBAL (a source of hydride)
D. LDA (A nitrogen atom with two lone pairs and two isopropyl groups)
E. All of them will.
I added the info in (). We were told throughout the course that irreversible nucleophiles add twice to carboxylic acid derivatives. Also, LDA isn't technically irreversible, but essentially functions as an irreversible nucleophile.