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Flexibilene is a terpene isolated from Sinularia exibilis, a soft coral found in the Indian Ocean. Draw a stepwise mechanism for the formation of exibilene from farnesyl diphosphate and isopentenyl diphosphate. What is unusual
about the cyclization that forms the 15-membered ring of exibilene?

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