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[Anna Goldberg 2I]

Does anyone have any good tips on how to approach this problem and the diagram? I understand that you have to isolate the reactants and the products, and, by doing so, find the intermediates, but I'm not sure on the quickest way to do so.

[Mika Sonnleitner 1A]

To identify the intermediates, you would choose the compound that appears as a product in one reaction, and then as a reactant in the next reaction. To find the overall reaction, you would remove all intermediates and simply write the reaction using the reactants and products that are left.

[Adrian Lim 1G]

I would first look for the intermediate(s), which is produced and then used up to get the overall reaction. As for the diagrams, I just went from left to right of the molecule, but I don't think it would hurt too much to have the compound written in a slightly different form as long as everything is there.

[Gurkriti Ahluwalia 1K]

if the diagrams are exactly the same, they are the same molecule. for simplicity sake, i started out by naming the entire molecule x or y or z so I would see where the intermediates are easily, and then when it asked me for the overall reaction or the actual molecule i wrote out the full version from left to right. DON'T BE SCARED OF SEEING THESE COMPLEX MOLECULES! you can handle them if you take them piece by piece, I promise!