As shown above, methenamine is hydrolyzed in aqueous acid to produce formaldehyde and ammonia. Draw a mechanism showing formation of one molecule of formaldehyde (the remaining five molecules of formaldehyde are each released via a similar sequence of steps). The release of each molecule of formaldehyde is directly analogous to the hydrolysis of an acetal. To get you started, the first two steps are provided below:

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