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Check the following for style, punctuation, grammar, etc. (True = Correct, False = Incorrect)  The university promised to ease the parking situation, and they plan three new garages. 

True or False: When a country undergoes dollarization, it mostly gives up control over monetary policy.

When Congress passes a large increase in government spending into law, it is conducting ____, and this is more appropriate in the presence of a ____.

Which of the following represents the rate-determining transition state for the formation of the MAJOR product in the reaction shown below? Note: The relative reaction rates of 1° H : 2° H : 3° H are 1 : 4 : 5, respectively. Both chain propagation steps of the reaction are exothermic.

For each pair of reactions shown below, determine which reaction would proceed at a faster rate. A or B: [AorB] C or D: [CorD] E or F: [EorF]

Select appropriate reagents/conditions to carry out each of the transformations (A-F) below.

Select appropriate reagents/conditions for each of the following transformations. Note that reaction D produces a mixture of two glycol stereoisomers; reactions B and C each produce only ONE of these stereoisomers.

Identify the predominant mechanism(s) for each of the reactions (A-C) shown below. Helpful hint: the pKa of HN3 is 4.6.

The reaction shown (reaction 1) below is a so-called semipinacol rearrangement. Silver nitrate is added to the reactant in order to precipitate silver iodide and produce a carbocation. Draw the most stable chair conformation of the starting material on your scratch paper and answer the following questions. After the formation of the initial carbocation, a rearrangement takes place. The migrating group or atom must be anti to the leaving group (the bond containing the migrating electron pair will be drawn parallel to the carbon-iodine bond in your chair conformation). Would you expect a hydride shift or a ring contraction to occur? [rearrangement] Which of the following (A-D) depicts the expected major product of reaction 1? [product1] The outcome of the reaction discussed in this problem is highly dependent on reactant stereochemistry. Consider reaction 2 (shown below) and answer the following questions. In the most stable chair conformation of the reactant (tert-butyl is equatorial), is there a migrating group (hydrogen atom, alkyl group, or C-C ring bond) that is anti to the leaving group? [anti] Which of the following (E-F) might reasonably form as the major product of the reaction? [product2]

Which of the following options represents the rate-determining transition state of the reaction shown below?