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Chemistry · Glossary

What is Kinetic and thermodynamic enolates?

Also known as: kinetic enolate · thermodynamic enolate

Definition 25.5 University Chemistry — Year 2 · Chapter 25 — Enols, Enolates and the Aldol Reaction

For a ketone with two different α\alpha carbons, the kinetic enolate is the one formed faster, by removal of a hydrogen from the less hindered, less substituted side; the thermodynamic enolate is the more stable one, with the more substituted double bond.

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