Diethyl adipate, when heated with sodium ethoxide, gives the product shown, by an intramolecular Claisen condensation: Write

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Diethyl adipate, when heated with sodium ethoxide, gives the product shown, by an intramolecular Claisen condensation:
Diethyl adipate, when heated with sodium ethoxide, gives the product

Write out the steps in a plausible mechanism for the reaction.

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Organic Chemistry A Short Course

ISBN: 978-1111425562

13th edition

Authors: Harold Hart, Christopher M. Hadad, Leslie E. Craine, David J. Hart

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