Song Title: A double bond to an O
Members: Hue Nguyen, (Jacob Sullivan & Joseph Sullivan)
Group Name: The Timberlakes
A ketone is a carbon double bonded to an O
I had to study alone and didn't know the things I had to know
And all of this had to wait, cause he told me to put on a show
So here we are baby, singing about making ketones so take out a flask
You put an alkyne in it,
You put some water in it,
You put an acid in it,
He said this was the easiest way,
Mercury salt up in it,
You gotta catalyze it,
It just won't go without it,
Can you tell me what this makes?
Addition of water to an alkyne,
we learned it in Organic 1
The enol that forms will tautomerize
to the compound that we really want,
It makes a ketone, not an aldehyde
Remembering this wasn't fun
That's okay baby 'cause in time it will form
A double bond to an O (to an O) better known as a ketone
A double bond to an O (to an O) better known as a ketone
A double bond to an O (to an O) better known as a ketone
A double bond to an O (to an O) better known as a ketone
And now, I remember all the things that he said,
Just when I thought I had it all down, he said there was another way
The funny thing about that is, I was ready to make an A
Thought there were only three ways, and now it's all just a shame and I guess I was wrong.
You put a nitrile in it,
You put some acid in it,
Grignard the heck out of it,
But try not to contaminate,
Apply some heating to it,
The N gets protonated,
The O will then replace it,
Can you tell me what this makes?
This is the way with a Grignard,
it doesn't make aldehydes,
I thought it was easy, but it's rather hard
It down-right almost made me cry,
I wrote most of this while sitting in my car,
And I ran out of words to rhyme,
But that's okay baby 'cause in time it will form
A double bond to an O (to an O) better known as a ketone
A double bond to an O (to an O) better known as a ketone
A double bond to an O (to an O) better known as a ketone
A double bond to an O (to an O) better known as a ketone
It's double bonded to an O, yeah
It's double bonded to an O, you should know that
It's double bonded to an O, yeah
It's double bonded to an O, you should know that
You put some alkyne in it,
Permanganate up in it,
Add a phase-transfer agent,
Just try not to contaminate,
You put some acid in it,
Make sure that you dilute it,
Or else it's gonna cleave it,
Tell me what this makes
This is the oxidation of alkynes,
the product is a diketone
reaction conditions must be mild,
Or else it will cleave the bond,
It'll break the flask because it runs real wild,
As it'll vigorously oxidize,
But that's okay baby 'cause in time it will form
A double bond to an O (to an O) better known as a ketone
A double bond to an O (to an O) better known as a ketone
A double bond to an O (to an O) better known as a ketone
A double bond to an O (to an O) better known as a ketone