(15) [4 points] Undergraduate research assistant Sally Humdinger draws the isome

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(15) [4 points] Undergraduate research assistant Sally Humdinger draws the isomer of dimethylbenzene shown in the Figure and tells her coworker, Will Wurklanghauers, that she wants to prepare it. Will points out that Sally's target is so much higher in energy than dimethylbenzene (due to strain and other factors) that it will convert quickly to dimethylbenzene, and Sally won't be able to isolate it. Sally agrees that the target compound is much higher in energy than dimethylbenzene, but she disagrees that that means that she won't be able to isolate it. Who is right, and why? Launch Marvin ViewTM or click image to copy source 3 CH3

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The above compond drawn in picture is highly unstable due to large strain, (angle strain). angle strain is due to abnormal bond formation in organic compounds .

and its difficult to handle such compounds in laboratory say for ex: while separating it may undergo chnages back to stable form so sally is right !!!

i hope its difficult even to synthesize.

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