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The air in the lab was thick with the smell of stale coffee and the sharp, stinging scent of acetone. It was 2:00 AM. Outside, a storm was battering the windows of the Chemistry building, but inside, Elias was fighting a war of his own.

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Analyze the [3,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement (Cope Rearrangement) of 1,5-hexadiene. Draw the chair-like transition state and explain how substituents at the C1 and C6 positions influence the rate and equilibrium of the reaction. advanced organic chemistry practice problems