Interpretation:
The following mechanism, which has the curved arrow omitted, is for another reaction that converts an amide to a carboxylic acid. The mechanism is to be completed by drawing the missing curved arrows, and tetrahedral intermediate is to be identified. Below each reaction arrow, the name of the elementary step that takes place is to be written, and it is to be indicated whether the step is reversible or irreversible.
Concept introduction:
The opposite charges attract while the like charges repel. In an elementary step, electrons tend to follow from an electron rich site to an electron poor site. An elementary step can also occur in which only a single bond is broken and both electrons from that bond end up on one of the atoms initially involved in the bond.
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- Organic Chemistry: A Guided InquiryChemistryISBN:9780618974122Author:Andrei StraumanisPublisher:Cengage Learning