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19 Nov 2021
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Given to us are a reaction and its three-step proposed mechanism and we need to show that the mechanism sums to the overall reaction.
This three-step mechanism is proposed.
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Step 1.
Most chemical reactions do not occur in a single step but through several steps. When we write a chemical equation to represent a chemical reaction, we usually represent the overall reaction, not the series of individual steps by which the reaction occurs. each step in a reaction mechanism is an elementary step.
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