Friday, March 9, 2012

Practice Final Exam 2010 Answers

A few mistakes on this answer key: 

1. The haworth structure for fructofuranose should have CH2OH instead of H on the first carbon immediately right of the oxygen at the top of the ring.  

2. On page 4 number 3a, the extended structural formula should include two lone pairs of electrons on each oxygen. 

3. On page 4 number 3c, in the third step of the mechanism the CH3-CH2-O molecule should not directly remove the H from from the carboxyllic acid.  You should first add a hydrogen to the CH3-CH2-O to make ethanol.  Do this by drawing an arrow from the negatively charged oxygen to a hydrogen on the water molecule.  This step will produce ethanol and -OH.  Then use the -OH molecule to remove the H from the carboxyllic acid.  Do this by drawing an arrow from -OH to the H on the carboxyllic acid.

4. On page 6 number 5b iii, the answer should be 3-methyl-6-nonanol.

(Disclaimer: I didn't make this answer key...)








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