No doubt you've always wondered what to do with all of that pyruvate floating around in your body. Now you know a few different things: lactate, ethanol, and acetylCoA all come to mind.
We learned a new system today: TPP ylid, which works as a place-holder for pyruvate, allowing use to add nucleophiles to the C=O. Depending on the nature of the nucleophile, we can effect either an oxidation or reduction of the original pyruvate.
Problem set will be posted later today.
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