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I understand that tert-butoxide is used to favor the Hofmann product in elimination reactions due to its steric bulk (and thus inability to abstract a proton in a more substituted position); however, I have often seen proposed organic synthesis involving the use of tert-butoxide when it is seemin...
Zinc oxide is reduced at a constant temperature in a closed reactor using ZnO(s) and C(s) as the only starting materials.The following reactions are assumed to be at thermodynamic equilibrium.
$ZnO(s)+C(s)\rightarrow Zn(g)+CO(g)\\2CO(g)\rightarrow CO_2(g)+C(s)\\$
Assume ideal gas behaviour.Based...
