Answer to Question #278994 in General Chemistry for Cam

Question

I want to perform an addition reaction in which I add a single carbon to Diphenylteramide (C24H19N3O). How would I perform this reaction to produce (C25H19N3O)?

Answer 1

Addition reactions are typical of unsaturated organic compounds—i.e., alkenes, which contain a carbon-to-carbon double bond, and alkynes, which have a carbon-to-carbon triple bond—and aldehydes and ketones, which have a carbon-to-oxygen double bond. An addition reaction may be visualized as a process by which the double or triple bonds are fully or partially broken in order to accommodate additional atoms or groups of atoms in the molecule. Addition reactions to alkenes and alkynes are sometimes called saturation reactions because the reaction causes the carbon atoms to become saturated with the maximum number of attached groups.