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National Exam 04-BS-12, Organic Chemistry — December 2015. 3 hours, closed-book examination; any non-programmable calculator permitted. Answer ALL FIVE problems; each problem is of equal value (20 points), and the lettered sub-parts of a given problem may be treated independently.
Reference texts: McMurry, Organic Chemistry, 9th ed. (functional-group identification, degree of unsaturation, acid-catalysed alcohol dehydration and alkene/arene hydration, alkane nomenclature, catalytic hydrogenation, ester/disulfide isomers, acid-catalysed transesterification mechanism, Markovnikov addition, nitration, carbon classification, benzylic oxidation, diazonium/Sandmeyer synthesis).
