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Solving a Puzzling Chemistry Problem: What Went Wrong?
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This isn't really a homework problem but i'd like to know how to run this mechanism. I have no idea how one oxygen ended up leaving. I can make it so then the ring is broken apart and like turn the oxygen into a hydroxide...from then on out I'm confused as to wat to do...
You haven't lost oxygen. You have moved the etherial oxygen to a different carbon. This gives you a six-member ring instead of a 5-member one.
I find it useful to use the catalyst in the first step. Where would you add that proton so that it would give you a product? Do all three postitions and see where it leads...