Anyone got their MC solutions?

[jakeleemic]

Mmm but I assume it's referring to oxidation or reduction of the organic molecule, not the other reactants.

Working it out 'mathematically' using the VCE redox laws, question D is correct. Intuitively, question B makes more sense. I'm just not certain on the maths because it involves ON of organic molecules which is perhaps tangential to the VCE course, hence why I'm backing option B. I didn't even try to do the maths the first time I did it haha.

In the question is says with steps of the synthesis involve a reduction reaction, it doesn't explicitly say 'the molecule undergoes reduction in steps...'

[charmanderp]

In the question is says with steps of the synthesis involve a reduction reaction, it doesn't explicitly say 'the molecule undergoes reduction in steps...'

It does to an extent actually. It says that it's an 'organic pathway for synthesis of paracetamol', so what we're doing is tracking how we go from phenol to paracetamol. The other reactants only have fleeting participation and they serve only to evolve that phenol molecule, so we're most interested in what happens to that.