Introduction to General, Organic and Biochemistry
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Author:Frederick A. Bettelheim, William H. Brown, Mary K. Campbell, Shawn O. Farrell, Omar Torres
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Please help me with the organic chemistry problem below:

Consider the reaction below: (Check the attached image)

(it is between Furan and maleic anhydride, a DIels-Alder reaction)

a) Will this reaction for an endo product (with a melting point of 80-81 degrees) or the exo product (with a melitng point of 114 degrees)?

b) Carefully explain why the product must have been formed the way it did (exo or endo).

c) Provide a mechanism for this reaction.

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0=
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-0
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Transcribed Image Text:+ 0= =0 -0 =0
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