Question

НО Ho OH Bimatoprost is a medication used to treat high pressure inside the eye including glaucoma. Based on the benzene, present one reaction that you predict the compound would undergo. (simple acid-base reactions are not permitted). Give the product/starting material, the reagent(s) and the curly arrow reaction mechanism. These are predicted reactions, based on the functional group, they do not have to be reactions the drug actually undergoes, but the reaction has to be applicable to the functional group.

Answer 1

Mon Benzene can undergo electrophilig aromatic substitution_mon 20 reachine Here, the o benzene undesgo electrophilic aromatic brermination in presenie of Byz! FeBrz.' = o HOA Hom o Br FeBra HO_ Product For Mechanism, det us consider this part to R group

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