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Chapter1: Chemical Foundations

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β-Carotene is the compound responsible
for the orange color of carrots and is the
precursor to vitamin A. Judging from the
Lewis structure shown here, how many π
bonds does β-carotene have?

H3C CH3
CH3
CH3
CH3
CH3
H3C CH3
`CH3
В-Carotene

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Step 1

$β$ -carotene

It is the compound that is responsible for the orange color of carrots.

It consists of conjugated double bonds, that are responsible for the color.

Step 2

The pi bonds in $β$ -carotene can be numbered as;

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