"Livin La Aldol Loca"
Alison Bartczak, Kristyn Feldman, Alysse Kowalski, Oscar Santiesteban, Ally Cour
Song: "Livin La Vida Loca"
Artist: Ricky Martin
We've got this mechanism
Ketones and Aldehydes
The aldol condensation
Makes systems of hydroxides
Two down from the carbonyl
The alcohol does lie
You can build carbon structures
In lab all day and night
It makes you lose a proton
By dancing with a base
It makes you try to stabilize
Into an enolate
At a catalytic pace! Come on!
Chorus:
Upside, inside out. Livin' la aldol loca!
Electrons in and out. Livin' la aldol loca!
We make new carbon bonds
By nucleophile addition
It will wear you out , livin la aldol loca!
Livin la aldol loca!
Woke up a tetrahedral
It's a very stable form
This alkoxide intermediate
Makes me feel fuzzy and warm
Oxygen is protonated
Alcohol is formed
The carbons are all joined together
The base can be reborn
The reaction goes once more. Come on!
Chorus
We're into condensation
And new tricks for alcohols
Spontaneous dehydration
The synthesis is done
You've made a double bond! Come on!