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What reagent(s) is/are needed to drive the given reaction?

Explanation

This is a standard Diels-Alder reaction. Diels-Alder reactions are driven solely by adding heat to the reagents. By looking at the reagents and the product, we can tell that this is a Diels-Alder reaction. For Diels-Alder, we need a cis-diene and an alkene as reactants. When these reactants are stimulated by heat, they form a cyclohexene product.

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What is the product of the given reaction?

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Explanation

This is a classic Diels-Alder reaction and it consists of a diene (cyclopentadiene) and a dienophile (ethene). The bicyclic structure forms if the electrons are moved in a circular fashion.

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What reaction forms a substituted cyclohexene system?

Diels-Alder reaction

Hoffmann elimination

Wittig reaction

Gabriel synthesis

Explanation

The Diels-Alder reaction converts a conjugated diene and a substituted alkene into a six-membered ring containing cyclohexene (a substituted cyclohexene system). In Hoffmann elimination, tetra-alkyl ammonium salts undergo elimination to form the least substituted alkene. The Wittig reaction uses phosphorus ylides, aldehydes, or ketones to form an alkene and a triphenylphosphine oxide. Lastly, Gabriel synthesis forms primary amines via the reaction of a phthalimide with an alkyl halide, followed by cleavage with hydrazine.

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When the following reaction is carried out, what kind of product is formed:

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Note: When an organic reaction employs heat, it is often shown as a delta over the reaction arrow.

A tricyclic system with a five-membered ring and two six-membered rings

A bicyclic system with a five-membered ring and a six-membered ring

A bicyclic system with two six-membered rings

A tricyclic system with a four-membered ring, a five-membered ring, and a six-membered ring

A tricyclic system with two five-membered rings and a six-membered ring

Explanation

This is a Diels-Alder reaction; these reactions happen between a nucleophilic diene, shown in blue below, and an electrophilic dienophile, in green. Diels-Alder reactions install a set of bonds that connect each external carbon of the diene system to an alkene carbon in the dienophile system to create a new six-membered ring. All remaining structure of the two reactants are retained, including the six- and five-membered rings below. The red bonds are the newly installed bonds.

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III

IV

V

Explanation

Diels-Alder reactions create cyclohexene rings (eliminate III, IV, and V), and starting dienophile is trans (E conformation), so product is E (Eliminate I).

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What is the product of the reaction between 1,3-dibutene and bromoethene?

4-bromocyclohexene

3-bromocyclohexene

3-bromocyclopentene

No reaction occurs

None of these

Explanation

The electrons from one of the double bonds on the 1,3-dibutene create a new single bond. The other new single bond is created from the electrons in the double bond of the other reactant. These two new single bonds join the reactants to create a cyclic product.

The electrons from the other double bond in the 1,3-dibutene move between the carbon 2 and 3. Thus, the final product is a 6-carbon cycloalkene with a halogen substituent.

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