Can you post common reactants and solvents associated with their most common reactions?

Can you do a one page sheet that has rxn, mechanism, and clues that it is that rxn?

Thanks Brock, am very glad you found it helpful. James

Generally I would prefer dialkyl cuprate to dialkyl cadmium for conversion of an alkyl halide to a ketone, but dialkyl cadmium will also work. Both of these reagents will convert acid halides to ketones without addition to ketones. (see JACS 1972 vol 94 8593)

One contributing factor to the high reactivity of Grignard reagents towards carbonyls is the Lewis acidic character of the magnesium, which coordinates to oxygen and activates the carbonyl carbon toward nucleophilic attack. This is much less of a problem with the less oxophilic metals copper and cadmium.

Bromine will not be exactly in the plane. The model that applies in these cases is the “half-chair” model. Good image is here (replace CH3 with Br for your case) https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Schematic-representation-of-half-chair-conformations-6-HC-7-and-6-HC-7-of-ring-B-in_fig1_31911282

Is this a theoretical question or an actual transformation you are doing in a lab?

For catalytic hydrogenation with Pd-C/H2, nitro is generally more easily reduced than a double bond. My reference is Pd-C in Paquette’s encyclopedia of reagents for organic synthesis, volume 6, available for loan (free) on archive.org

It is possible to find conditions that will selectively reduce the alkene without reducing the nitro group. It is also possible to reduce a nitro group without affecting a double bond elsewhere in the molecule.

Is the double bond conjugated to the nitro group, or is it isolated from the nitro group? Conjugation between the nitro and the double bond will make the alkene somewhat less likely to undergo catalytic hydrogenation.