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Given information

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-by-step explanation

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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