Bisphenol A

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Bisphenol A is the polycarbonate / epoxy monomer that built half the modern plastics industry. Symmetric and easy to walk back: it is just two phenols bolted onto an acetone via Friedel-Crafts alkylation in acid. Cut either C-aryl bond first; the symmetry means both ideal cuts are equivalent.

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Pick the bond you want to cut from the strip below the structure.

Cell id: bisphenol-a

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Use the bond strip below the structure to pick the bond you want to cut. Each chip shows the atom indices and the element pair so you can read them with a screen reader.

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