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Walk the model: caffeine

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Walk SynovAI's retrosynthesis of caffeine. The teaching beat is N-methylation regiochemistry: textbook order is N7 first, then N3, then N1, so retrosynthetically you peel them off in reverse. The model may pick a different cut order; when you match the textbook order and the model does not, you beat the AI.

Step 1: cut this product back to its reactants

Which reactants did the model pick?

Pick the reaction class

Lock in your prediction

Pick the reactants and the reaction class, then submit to see what the model did.