5-methylhex-5-en-1-al reacts with trace sodium hydroxide and water. In this mechanism, one of the electron pairs from the hydroxide attaches to the aldehyde carbon. This causes the pi bonds between the carbon and oxygen to break, and the electrons move to the oxygen, giving it a negative formal charge. One of the electron pairs on the negatively charged oxygen abstracts a proton from the water molecule,

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5-methylhex-5-en-1-al reacts with trace
sodium hydroxide and water. In this
mechanism, one of the electron pairs
from the hydroxide attaches to the
aldehyde carbon. This causes the pi
bonds between the carbon and oxygen
to break, and the electrons move to
the oxygen, giving it a negative formal
charge. One of the electron pairs on the
negatively charged oxygen abstracts
a proton from the water molecule,
Transcribed Image Text:5-methylhex-5-en-1-al reacts with trace sodium hydroxide and water. In this mechanism, one of the electron pairs from the hydroxide attaches to the aldehyde carbon. This causes the pi bonds between the carbon and oxygen to break, and the electrons move to the oxygen, giving it a negative formal charge. One of the electron pairs on the negatively charged oxygen abstracts a proton from the water molecule,
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