Chapter 28: Q15P (page 1231)
Account for the difference in the products obtained under photochemical and thermal conditions:

Short Answer
a.

b.

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Chapter 28: Q15P (page 1231)
Account for the difference in the products obtained under photochemical and thermal conditions:

a.

b.

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Propose a mechanism for the following reaction:

a. Identify the mode of ring closure for each of the following electrocyclic reactions.
b. Are the indicated hydrogens cis or trans?

Problem:Give a molecular orbital description for each of the following:
a. 1,3-pentadiene b. 1,4-pentadiene c. 1,3,5-heptatriene d. 1,3,5,8-nonatetraene
A student found that heating any one of the isomers shown here resulted in scrambling of the deuterium to all three positions on the five-membered ring. Propose a mechanism to account for this observation.
Problem:a. Under thermal conditions, will ring closure of (2E,4Z,6Z,8E)-2,4,6,8-decatetraene be conrotatory or disrotatory?
b. Will the product have the cis or the trans configuration?
c. Under photochemical conditions, will ring closure be conrotatory or disrotatory?
d. Will the product have the cis or the trans configuration?
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