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What is the starting material in the reaction shown below?  

Given the following rate law, what will happen to the rate if the concentration of MeI is doubled and the concentration of Me3N is halved?             Rate = k[Me3N][MeI]

Bonus question What is the IUPAC name of the following compound? (You need to provide complete naming; R/S configuration, numbering, etc. No partial credit) 

Select the word or phrase that complete each sentence (constitutional isomers, diastereomers, enantiomers, meso compounds, higher, lower, reaction, addition, carbocation, carbanion, nucleophile, electrophile, elimination, heterolysis, homolysis, reagent, substitution, stronger, weaker, charge, concerted, two step, SN1, SN2, racemization, hyperconjugation, alkyl halides, inversion):     The formation of equal amount of two enantiomeric products from a single material is called ………………….  Complete word/phrase and correct spelling (verbatim) is required. No partial credit.

Dehydrohalogenation of 2-bromobutane in the presence of potassium tert-butoxide proceeds via which of the following mechanistic pathways?

Which of the following is the structure of the following cation after rearrangement?

If you live in a community where you can go into a grocery store and do your shopping and leave your windows rolled down in your car and your laptop on the front seat and you do this as a matter of course, you been doing it for years and you don’t worry about it getting stolen.   If you live in a community where for years you have been going to bed at night with your doors and windows unlocked and your keys in the ignition in your car parked in the driveway.   Robert Putnam would say that you have a lot of, and you apparently are fortunate enough to live in a community where there is a lot of

In the documentary “Chasing Ice” there was a scene where Balog and a colleague were lowering themselves down into a moulan that seemed “bottomless.” Where was this?

You have a society where there is a lot of thin trust. Is that a good thing or not such a good thing?

According to Dr. Gidon Eshell in the documentary Before The Flood, you could play a significant role in cutting down on the emission of greenhouse gases if you cut out of your diet which of the following foods?