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Compound A serves as a prodrug for the analgesic benzocaine. (A prodrug is a pharmacologic...

Compound A serves as a prodrug for the analgesic benzocaine. (A prodrug is a pharmacologically inactive compound that is converted in the body to an active drug, usually by a metabolic transformation.) The enzyme amidase converts compound A into benzocaine. Write the structures of the possible products of A that might be formed by hydrolysis in aqueous HC1.

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