"Vinegar Symphony-Opus 23"

Let's start with an Alkyne
and let's add
sodamide;
you will get a negative i-on a-ce-ty-Iyde.
You can see that carbon has
a lone pair
there to spare
sitting next to plus-charge-sodium ion, don't forget.

Methyl chloride passes by
all exposed, big mistake.
Via S N 2 attack
chloride's expelled.
Let's add more Sodium amide
To get a-cetyl-ide;
a new victim comes along:
An aldehyde.
Aldehyde is non-chalant
and then wham! An attack!
Carbonyl is dead,
you can see the bond as it cracks.

The Alkyne grows in size
Will assault
someone else
H 3 O plus has been added and will be the next.
As the acid walks around
with one plus to donate
the big molecule is plotting:
"which one shall I take?"
Alkoxide is by itself,
3 lone pairs, all alone.
Takes away a proton
and we have an alcohol.

This guy has 5 carbons and
two of them triple bond,
o H in C 2; that's 3
pen - tyn - 2 - ol
Potassium permanganate
Would break that triple bond;
Too bad we ran out ofK M NO 4.
And if we had Platinum
And Deuterium as well
They would saturate it all
the way into Alkane.

-Who has powerful, big friends
whose help we can enlist?
-We can contact hydrogen
and Lindlar's cata-lyst!!!
And so the big war begins:
H 2 and catalyst
kick the bully's butt
and tum it into an Alkene.
Hydrogen is added with
the conformation cis.
It's important that you realize
what that prefix means.

Now let's call out the big gun!
He's Ozone (or 03 )
Breaks the double bond in two
"Bye bye Alkene!"
CH3 COOH
- "Say a name for this guy"
- "Ethanoic acid or vinegar's fine!"
- "Who's responsible for this?"
- "wasn't sodium amide,
it was Alkyne
trying to become acetylide"

Now acetylene's gone,
serves him well, it's his fault
all that's left is vinegar
and tons of alcohol
All that's left is vinegar
And tons of alcohol.
All that's left is vinegar
And tons of alcohol.