a. Draw resonance contributors to show why pyridine-N-oxide is more reactive than pyridine toward electrophilic aromatic substitution.b. At what position does pyridine-N-oxide undergo electrophilic aromatic substitution?

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a. Draw resonance contributors to show why pyridine-N-oxide is more reactive than pyridine toward electrophilic aromatic substitution.
b. At what position does pyridine-N-oxide undergo electrophilic aromatic substitution?

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