The Birch reduction

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In this video, we explore the Birch Reduction by carrying it out on benzene. This is a very useful reaction and it is pretty cool to carry out too. A photo of a typical mechanism: http://www.chemgapedia.de/vsengine/media/vsc/en/ch/12/oc/radikale/birch_reduktion/birch_mechanismus_en.gif Depending on the groups attached to the ring, the mechanism does change a little bit and it produces a product that is reduced at different places. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Merch - https://nilered.tv/store ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Join the community: Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/nilered Discord - https://discord.com/invite/3BT6UHf NileRed Newsletter - https://nile.red/home#newsletter You can also find me here: Facebook - https://m.facebook.com/NileRed2 Instagram - https://m.instagram.com/nile.red Twitter - https://mobile.twitter.com/NileRed2 Nile talks about lab safety: https://youtu.be/ftACSEJ6DZA

Published 2016-01-07 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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