How to pronounce“epoxides”in English

Epoxides have a lot of ring strain, so they open up pretty easily.

If "epoxides" sound familiar, that's because we've seen how to make them from alkenes already.

We come across epoxides in epoxy glues, where they react with amines to form an adhesive polymer.

Learned how to open epoxides regioselectively, and Oxidized alcohols to aldehydes or carboxylic acids with different reagents In the next episode, we’ll take a break from adding more reactions to our toolkit and apply some of what we’ve learned to a lab experiment!

unstable energy richch molecules known as epoxides.

Organometallic compounds can react with epoxides, too, by opening the ring and forming an alcohol.

In this episode, we’ll look at how we can use them as a starting point to get to other oxygen-containing organic compounds: ethers, epoxides, and more! We’ve already seen a few ways to make alcohols.