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This question is for the Nitration of Methyl Benzoate, the final product is Methyl 3 nitrobenzoate but I dont know how to get the byproduct produced during this reaction. Please use the expanded structural formulas and show a mechansim on how that occurs and on the right please provide a description of what is going on in that step/mechanism, ie an Sn1 or E1, etc.

b. As stated in the Lab Manual for this experiment, a by-product is possibly produced in this reaction if the temperature is not kept low. Write the complete mechanism for the reaction to produce the di-nitrated product. Draw each step of the mechanism on a separate line beginning on the left margin, and then explaining on the right how the reaction step occurs. (The lecture textbook, Klein 3rd. Ed. also uses this mechanistic narrative for each step.) Be sure to use expanded structural formulas for all chemical species. Include all bonds, non-bonding electrons, formal charges, and electron-flow arrows. DO NOT use bond-line formulas, but rather explicitly show atomic symbols. For this mechanism. show the resonance hybrid for the arenium ion intermediate H2SO4 OCH3 + HONO2 OCH; + H₂O NO2

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Answers Showing mechanism fore Nitration of Methyl Benzoate, CH3 + HONO2 H2 504 OCH3 + H2O home remeteng abesyo ez ne mot 2021 N Mechanism :- HÖ-NO2 Yo so : OH - Z . H-O- +0503H . H₂O + NO2 Electrophile. Sicle product. O Oren OCH3 =Z=0 H: NO2 # electrophillic substitution. LOOCH3 OT NOZ f ^ NO2 Η Ôy Tre VOCH3 arenium Ochz aromatization complex. NO2 NO2 .HT