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Question: What is the skeletal structure of the indicated species from the reaction below? What is the skeletal structure of the indicated species from the reaction below? http://www.webassign.net/userimages/kasandbe/221spr01HW19C.gif 1) Diene A? 2) Dienophile B? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer: The reaction is a thermal Diels-Alder reaction, involving an electrocylic reaction between diene and dienophile. Diene A is 1,2-dimethylenecyclobutane, and its SMILES code is cc1CCc1c Dienophile B is 1,4-benzoquinone, which might also be called p-benzoquinone or cyclohexa-2,5-diene-1,4-dione. Its SMILES code is c1C(=O)ccC(=O)c1 SMILES codes can be input into the depction utility at: http://www.daylight.com/daycgi_tutorials/depict.cgi If you change the size of the image size to XL or XXL you will also be able to get a nice illustration of the entire reaction. In the SMILES code for the reaction (below) I have put a spce between the two greater than signs "> >" because Yahoo! Answers cuts off expressions that are two long. You will need to remove the space for the input into the depiction utility. Separated SMILES code for the reaction: cc1CCc1c.c1C(=O)ccC(=O)c1> >c12CCc1CC(C3C2)C(=O)ccC3(=O) NB: Sometimes there are multiple SMILES codes to produce the same image, and some codes include indications of stereochemistry whilst others do not. The codes I have given do display in the depiction utility I have indicated, at least for me. If they don't for you, googling for the names of the diene and dienophile should get you links where the structures are shown. I am sure wikipedia would cover quinones, for example, and also Diels-Alder reactions.


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