1. Draw the structure of your product and explain in detail how you arrived at that structure from the spectral information.
2. Using references from the Bibliography, find the common name of your starting material and the name of the reaction you carried out.
3. Write a mechanism that shows how 2,3-dimethyl-2,3-butanediol is converted to the unknown product.
4. (a) Calculate the atom economy and reaction efficiency of your synthesis. (b) Describe some green features of your synthesis, and any that aren't so green.
5. Following the directions in Appendix V, construct a flow diagram for the synthesis of your product.
6. Give the structure of the product that the BASF chemist (see "Unexpected Outcomes in Chemistry") should have obtained from the reaction of naphthalene with an equivalent amount of sulfuric acid if he hadn't broken his mercury thermometer.
7. (a) Outline a synthesis of 2-3-dimethy1-1,3-butadiene (the product Willy Hackett was trying to make) from 2,3-dimethyl-2-butene. (b) Outline the synthesis of a rubber-like polymer that can be made from this diene.