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Here are my resonance structures. Unless I'm doing something wrong, both attacks have one resonance structure that is a tertiary carbocation.

TOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! for da steal
Here are my resonance structures. Unless I'm doing something wrong, both attacks have one resonance structure that is a tertiary carbocation.
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well played sir...................well played 👍
I did 2 FL's which took me about 10 hours. then i took an Hour break and continued to go through the FL's which took close to 3 hours. then i just started reading up on Hormones cuz that's where i got most of my questions wrong. 16 ****@ng hours 😡
Here are my resonance structures. Unless I'm doing something wrong, both attacks have one resonance structure that is a tertiary carbocation.
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Except that the in the top set of resonance the hydrogen next to the carbonyl is more acidic I think? because it can resonate with the carbonyl when you remove it. I drew a picture but messed up when I realized the same thing you did. Let me just draw a simplified version.
Alright cool, that would be awesome
Here is a webpage I found:
http://www.chem.ucla.edu/~bacher/General/30CL/problems/hint/naphthalene_cation.html
Why aren't there more resonance structures than they show, though?
No there isn't DUR. Fail on my part. Ignore my drawing. Because you wouldn't break aromaticity in the second ring haha. They have it right.
Make sense?
Duh! Wow, I feel dumb now haha. Yeah that makes perfect sense. Thanks for the help!
Its ok. I feel dumb too....drawing all those resonances....I drew the same thing you did and was stuck haha.
Ha well I'm glad we figured that out because now I can sleep...lab in 6 hours. Night Tatertots and rest of '17!
That's really amazing 👍👍 Wish I could keep concentration for 5hrs 😛 Why so much studying in one go?
my test is less than two weeks away![]()
August 5th for memy test is less than two weeks away![]()
my test is less than two weeks away![]()
August 5th for me![]()
Thanks. Off to another day of Two-a-day studying sessions. This is like hell week in football, only worse.Good luck!
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Have you guys hit your goal for avg MCAT scores on practice tests?
Have you guys hit your goal for avg MCAT scores on practice tests?
I hit my goal on my first two tests but not on my third test =(. My Average is a little lower than where I want it because of that third test =/
How about you?
Considering I've only taken two tests so far... no, lol. But no, so far I am far from happy with my average. I'll probably take my first AAMC in a few days to see where I'm at with a different test format, I've only taken Kaplans so far.
When are you taking your MCAT, tman?
Oh, also, EVERY time I see you post tman, I think I'm talking to Aishwarya. It's kind of weird. Dhoom 2 on the brain, apparently... 🙄