Carbonyl compounds are very widespread in nature and synthetically they are indispensable. Their carbon atom is connected to an oxygen atom by a double bond. Carbonyl group can be found in compounds of aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids and their derivatives, carbohydrates and other. With my work I focused on different conversions of carbonyl compounds. Aldehydes and ketones most frequently participate in nucleophilic additions, yet carboxylic acids and their derivatives in nucleophilic substitutions. I described formation reactions and use of para-quinone methides because their intermediate products are very important in many biological and chemical processes. One of more important reactions, in which carbon bond is formed, is the Michael reaction. I also learned about reactions with ynones, which have carbonyl group next to the triple bond.
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