The Wittig Reaction

The Wittig reaction is one of the most important carbon-carbon double bond formation reactions that you're going to see in your course. So, in this video we'll go over this details of the reaction mechanism and what to look out for on the test.

00:00 Intro
01:18 Ylide formation
04:09 Reaction with the carbonyl
06:47 [2+2] mechanism
09:00 Types of ylides and stereochemistry

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