major product from rxn between 1-bromo-2-phenylethane (2-bromoethyl benzene? idk which would be more appropriate... you get the idea though - PhCH2CH2Br ) and acetylacetone in Na2CO3/EtOH/H2O

i can't, for the life of me, figure this out. i feel retarded as i know this has to do with the acetylacetone tautomerizing into its associated enolate, but there's something stupid i'm missing after that...

ideas?

3/26/2009 8:43:18 PM

42?

3/26/2009 9:59:12 PM

^You forgot 11 somewhere in there...

it's 53

3/26/2009 10:07:33 PM

come on guys, we are in our 20's

3/26/2009 10:32:56 PM

sry

i thought you would appreciate the hitchhiker reference

3/26/2009 10:49:26 PM

oh i did very much so

webassign (burn in hell) doesn't have a sense of humor, however

3/26/2009 11:17:24 PM

shit just blew my mind, is that organic I or II?

3/27/2009 7:57:50 PM

you still need that answer?

[Edited on March 28, 2009 at 12:33 AM. Reason : whos your proff]

3/28/2009 12:32:50 AM