Convert the following models into line drawings (back = C; white = H; blue = N):
b.

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Convert the following models into line drawings (back = C; white = H; blue = N):

b.

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All right. Hi everyone. So this question says to draw a line structure based on the following molecular model. Blue is carbon white, is hydrogen and orange is oxygen. Now recall a line structure can also be described as a skeletal structure. So let's begin by discussing what that means right? In a skeletal structure, carbon are not explicitly shown. Instead, all corners and open ends are implied to be carbon at now, hydrogen atoms bonded two carbon atoms are not shown either and are instead implied because they're expected to fill however many bonds, carbon is lacking. But elements that are not carbon or hydrogen, namely nitrogen, oxygen, chlorine, et cetera, those are always shown in a skeletal structure as are any hydrogen atoms bound to those other atoms. So all this is to say that we're only going to focus our attention on the blue spheres and the orange spheres for carbon and oxygen. First, I can see that there's a ring structure involving only carbons. So here we have a six membered ring composed only of carbons. So to represent that I would go ahead and I would draw a hexagon because all corners of the hexagon would represent one carbon atom. And in addition to this, I can see two double bonds that are opposite to each other. So I would add two double bonds on opposite sides of each other in my hexagon here. So now I want to talk about or want to address right, substituents that are attached to the right, right. So if we consider the bottom left side of the structure, we have two substituents on the same carbon. Now, because this is a three dimensional model, we have to showcase the stereo chemistry or the arrangement of these substituents in space. Now, the substituents here are attached to a carbon that is not double bonded. So you could choose either of the available positions to do so. But for the purposes of making the structure is similar to the model, I'm going to focus my attention on the carbon towards the bottom left side of the structure as well, right. So here we can see that the orange sphere is pointing towards us and that orange sphere has one hydrogen atom attached to it. So because the oxygen atom is pointing towards us, I would depict this substituent with a wedge. So that's oh and again, hydrogen's attached to atoms that are not carbon always must be show. So there is one right. And now behind the oh group is one methyl group or ACH three. So because the metal group is pointing behind us, I'm going to depict it as a wedge and because it contains carbon, it is not actually going to be she because the opened and here at the end of the dash would imply that that would be a carbon with the appropriate number of hydrogens. And there you have it right here is your skeletal or line structure based on the model shown. So with that being said, thank you so very much for watching and I hope you found this helpful.

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b.

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b.