The Michael Reaction: Donors and Acceptors #organicchemistry

Added: 2026-05-04

[00:00:00]Meet the cast of every Michael reaction and don't forget their roles. There are different types that I do recommend, you know. The main types you're going to see for your Michael donors or the nucleophiles are going to be something that have multiple carbonial groups. I'd say those are the most common ones that you'll see. We did go over an example of our Gilman reagent. That's also a possibility. While these others, I will say sometimes are used, but they're not the most common ones. The most common ones are going to be those dicarbonials.

[00:00:26]While our Michael acceptors are conjugated. So we do have that alpha beta conjugation that we saw before.

[00:00:33]Whether that's an aldahhide or a ketone or an esther or an amide, these will all be our electrophiles. This was just the start. community has all of the mechanisms and everything you need for OKIM topics.