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The major product(s) for the reaction below should be [product] occurring from [mech] mechanism(s).  

You are called in on a Saturday afternoon for an emergency spinal cord compression to the patient’s T-12 thoracic spine. The doctor wants to simulate the patient on the linear accelerator as it would be too painful to move the patient to the simulator then the accelerator. Once you get the patient on the table, after signing an informed consent, you identify where the lesion is located in the spine, and take a portal image.  You are designing an AP/PA treatment portal as an open field, no MLC. What would be the portal design for this treatment for both the AP and PA portal? 

In lab, you purified a compound by recrystallization. You added hot solvent, completely dissolved your unknown, and removed it from the heat to cool.   Say that your lab partner got impatient and moved it to the ice bath while still hot.  The result would be:

Primary squamous cell carcinomas of the lung that are greater than three centimeters and have lymph node involvement at the time of diagnosis are usually located within the  

Choose the correct label for the following: nucleophile, electrophile, or neither.   CH3CH2+ [label1]   CH3C=CH [label2]   BH3 [label3]

 Radiation therapists must be able to identify which of the following:  the location of a tumor organs in close proximity to a tumor movement effects on a tumor

The bifurcation of the trachea is in the same vertebral level as the 

Select the best descriptor for the conformer shown below.

Choose the most commonly occurring natural conformation of trans-cyclohexane-1,4-diol.  Hint: often natural compounds adopt the most stable conformation – translate the hexagon to a chair in its most stable conformer.  

Choose all nucleophiles from the list below.