25 Recently at a concert, Justin Bieber was asked to sing the song Despacito\".

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25 Recently at a concert, Justin Bieber was asked to sing the song Despacito". This song is currently #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and Bieber himself recorded it with two other musicians. According to the news report, when Bieber stated that he couldn't sing the song because he didn't know didn go over well as someone threw a bottle at him from the audience, which he ducked. It is believed that someone placed a substance in Bieber's energy drink that resulted in his dramatic memory loss. The prime suspect is the Chemistry Cat, shown below. Authorities suspect that the Chemistry Cat secretly spiked Bieber's drink with a massive dose of nepetalactone, the active ingredient in catnip, and that Bieber had an unfavorable reaction to this compound. Which statement best describes the hybridization of the oxygen atoms in nepetalactone? (Lone pairs are not explicitly drawn, but all atoms are neutral.) CH' nepetalactone a. Both are sp hybridized b. Both are sp' hybridized c. The carbonyl oxygen is sp2 and the ester oxygen is sp d. The carbonyl oxygen is sp and the ester oxygen is sp

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Both oxygens are sp2 hybridized. option A is correct.

Explanation: The carbonyl oxygen is attached to a double bond. double bonded  oxygen is sp2 hybridized and the ester oxygen is in conjugation with carbonyl double bond so it is sp2 hybridized.

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