Destroyer baby roadmap question

[ScarletKnight24]

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On page 114 in the middle of the page. It starts with a ketone and it goes kind of southeast and reacted with c2h5oh under acidic condition and it became hemi acetal. Shouldn't it become hemi-ketal since it started with a ketone?

thanks.

 

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On page 114 in the middle of the page. It starts with a ketone and it goes kind of southeast and reacted with c2h5oh under acidic condition and it became hemi acetal. Shouldn't it become hemi-ketal since it started with a ketone?

thanks.

not sure if theres a such thing as hemiketal, but if so - its probably the same thing as hemiacetal because acetal and ketal are used interchangeably

 

[ScarletKnight24]

not sure if theres a such thing as hemiketal, but if so - its probably the same thing as hemiacetal because acetal and ketal are used interchangeably

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hemiketal_formation.png

if one of the R group was a Hydrogen that it would be hemiacetal right.