When do enantiomers form? (Chad's notes)

[valkyrie08]

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I'm having problem understanding when do enantiomers form based on the alkene reactions in Chad's notes.

For example, in some reactions I noticed that Hydroboration- Oxidation forms enantiomers, while sometimes this reagent just yields one product.

Please help! Thank you!

 

[FeralisExtremum]

Enantiomers can potentially form in alkene reactions anytime your reaction creates a chiral center (because you don't necessarily know whether the R or S configuration would be created). So just take a look at your product and determine if a chiral center was formed from the reaction. If there was, he typically puts a ± symbol to indicate both enantiomers could be produced.

 

[valkyrie08]

Enantiomers can potentially form in alkene reactions anytime your reaction creates a chiral center (because you don't necessarily know whether the R or S configuration would be created). So just take a look at your product and determine if a chiral center was formed from the reaction. If there was, he typically puts a ± symbol to indicate both enantiomers could be produced.

Thank you!

 

[DAT Destroyer]

Enantiomers can potentially form in alkene reactions anytime your reaction creates a chiral center (because you don't necessarily know whether the R or S configuration would be created). So just take a look at your product and determine if a chiral center was formed from the reaction. If there was, he typically puts a ± symbol to indicate both enantiomers could be produced.

Feralis is rockin it !!! Indeed so.....after you get the product,,,,,,simply check to see if any chiral centers were created...If so......you must decide if a racemic mixture was created or perhaps a meso compound.

Dr. Romano