The label appears in the organic product and not in the water owing to the fact that water is eliminated as -OCH3 replaces -OH.
What is a labeled reaction?
Isotopic labelling is one of the methods by which a chemical reaction is studied. In this case, we can see that the reaction occurs with the hemiacetal reacting with a labeled methanol.
By looking at the reaction products we can see that the label appears in the organic product and not in the water owing to the fact that water is eliminated as -OCH3 replaces -OH.
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