CHEM 345 Final: CHEM340 Washington State old Final
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No aid is to be given to or received from another student. Please write your name and wsu id number on each page (including this page) at the top right corner. Hand in your exam papers to the proctor at the end of the test. The structure of methionine, an essential amino acid, is shown below. There are two bottles of methionine in your pharmacy, one contains the racemic methionine and the other one contains the s-isomer. Please devise a test to unambiguously identify which bottle contains the s-isomer. Constitutional isomers are compounds that have the same molecular formula, but differ in the way the atoms are connected in three dimensional space. Please draw the structures for all constitutional isomers that have the molecule formula of c3h6br2. Name each structure according to the iupac nomenclature system. Nmr analysis can be employed to distinguish the possible structures. Provide necessary reagents to complete the following transformation.
