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CAIE A-Level Chemistry Organic Mechanism Drawing Conventions

Practise showing electron movement unambiguously with curly arrows, lone pairs, dipoles and charges.

Syllabus
2028–2030
Course
Chemistry 9701
Level
A2

Reference—Organic reaction mechanism conventions question 1

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Some syntheses use Diels-Alder reactions, which normally involve a diene and an alkene reacting together to form a cyclohexene.

Draw three curly arrows in Fig. 9.4 to complete the mechanism for the Diels-Alder reaction between buta-1,3-diene and ethene.

Fig. 9.4

Fig. 9.4

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