Talk:Chemoselectivity

"Chemical reactions are defined usually in small contexts (only up to a small number of neighbouring atoms), such generalizations are a matter of utility. The preferential outcome of one instance of a generalized reaction over a set of other plausible reactions, is defined as chemoselectivity."

Can this be made more straightforward? The first sentence is too oblique. Perhaps the second should be first. 178.38.48.171 (talk) 08:39, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

The article makes almost no sense to me and I am a chemist. There is an IUPAC definition of "chemoselectivity"; why on earth someone preferred their own bizarre version is beyond me:

http://goldbook.iupac.org/C01051.html

"Chemoselectivity is the preferential reaction of a chemical reagent with one of two or more different functional groups. A reagent has a high chemoselectivity if reaction occurs with only a limited number of different functional groups. For example, sodium tetrahydroborate is a more chemoselective reducing agent than is lithium tetrahydroaluminate. The concept has not been defined in more quantitative terms. The term is also applied to reacting molecules or intermediates which exhibit selectivity towards chemically different reagents." -131.193.108.52 (talk) 21:57, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: CHEM 300
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 * My main intention with this edit is to:
 * 1-    Expand the idea of chemoselectivity coming from the initial product vs from the reagent used.
 * 2-    Explaining briefly why some functional groups are more reactive than others.
 * 3-    Add some generalizable examples with images.
 * 4-    Expand the reference list.
 * In general, I want someone reading this article to have some idea on which strategies to use to make their reaction selective, such as protecting the molecule or choosing better reaction conditions. Overworked.raposo (talk) 00:35, 9 March 2024 (UTC)