Quiz Answers 1. Azulene is a fascinating bicyclic unsaturated hydrocarbon. If you are still having trouble with resonance structures, please review Chapter 6 Electron Delocalization and Resonance. Digitoxose is obtained from the hydrolysis of digitoxin, a heart medication obtained from the foxglove plant. In addition, draw the most stable chair structure for digitoxose.
Alcohols are incompatible with certain reaction conditions.
Draw curved arrows and lone pair electrons to complete the following mechanism. Your research advisor is attempting to develop a new method for the synthesis of prostaglandins, a vitally important class of human hormones. Her current goal is the synthesis of a derivative of prostaglandin E 2 the most abundant and most active prostaglandin. She gave you a scrap of paper containing the following retrosynthetic analysis of the target molecule. She also included a note telling you to outline the steps in the synthesis of the target molecule from the indicated starting materials.