What is the limiting reagent in this reaction?Draw the conjugate base of Meldrum’s Acid and use inductive and resonance arguments to explain why it might be such a strong acid.

Post lab rep 5A

1. Meldrum’s Acid has a pKa of 4.97. Draw the conjugate base of Meldrum’s Acid and use inductive and resonance arguments to explain why it might be such a strong acid. Hint: draw resonance structures and evaluate their quality!

2. What is the limiting reagent in this reaction?

3 Predict the proton NMR spectru
hydrogen “kith of compound 3 by labeling each inequivalent
ith a letter and creating a table with each inequivalent hydro en in a
separate row in the below table.