1. Kindly answer the following questions below. You may use illustration to help explainyour answers.a. sec-butyl alcohol remains optically active in aqueous base, but racemizes whenmixed with dilute sulfuric acid. Suggest a mechanism accounting for thisobservation.b. The following 1935 experiment established that in SN2 reactions, a moleculeundergoes an inversion of configuration. Optically active 2-iodooctane wasreacted to with Na¹311 in acetone. It was observed that the rate of reactiondepended on both [RI] and [I], but the rate of racemization was two times fasterthan isotopic exchange. Explain this set of results..c. Explain the following observations: (i) why neomenthyl chloride and menthylchloride yields the following products below; and, (ii) why menthyl chloride reacts1/200 times as fast as neomenthyl chloride to yield the same product asneomenthyl chloride.2022aC/neomenthyl chloride2-menthene25%2-menthene75%menthyl chloride2-mentheneonly product

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1. Kindly answer the following questions below. You may use illustration to help explain your answers [. a. sec-butyl alcohol remains optically active in aqueous base, but racemizes when mixed with dilute sulfuric acid. Suggest a mechanism accounting for this observation.

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