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Provide the reagents necessary to carry out the conversion shown.

Which one of the choices is the strongest acid?

What is the predicted final product of the reaction sequence shown?

Which one of the compounds shown would undergo racemization at the a-stereocenter in the presence of a base?

Which of the compounds shown is the strongest acid?

Gary played baseball in high school and college and is a huge fan of the Houston Astros (a professional baseball team).  When Gary was a baseball player, he HATED cheaters.  Nothing made him angrier than when an opposing team or player would try to cheat in some way. Last year, an investigation found that the Houston Astros had repeatedly cheated during the previous seasons.  The deep sense of discomfort that Gary experiences due to the fact that, on one hand, he has consistently said that he hates cheaters, but on the other hand, he’s a fan of a team that has been shown to have cheated, is known in psychology as ________________.       

At her graduation, Janice started thinking back to herself during her first week in college. When she thinks back, she now remembers herself being far more strongly Libertarian when she entered college than she actually was at the time.  This illustrates what memory issue?

What reactant would give the aldol condensation product shown?

What is the predicted product of the following reaction?

Compound A on ozonolysis yields the two products shown. What is the structure of compound A?