Chapter 18: Q104P (page 923)
Show how Novocain, a painkiller used frequently by dentists, can be prepared from benzene and compounds containing no more than four carbons.
Novocain
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Chapter 18: Q104P (page 923)
Show how Novocain, a painkiller used frequently by dentists, can be prepared from benzene and compounds containing no more than four carbons.
Novocain
The answer is,

Reaction
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Which of the following compounds reacts with HBr more rapidly?

Draw resonance contributors for the carbanion that would be formed if meta-chloronitrobenzene were to react with hydroxide ion. Why doesn’t the reaction occur?
Show two pairs of reagents that would each result in formation of the following compound:

Describe two ways to prepare anisole from benzene.
Explain why a secondary amine forms a nitrosamine rather than a diazonium ion when it reacts with a nitrosonium ion.

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