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Walk the model: naproxen

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Walk SynovAI's retrosynthesis of naproxen. The rubric walks racemic naproxen on a 6-methoxynaphthalene core; the textbook ground truth is the BHC-style carbonylation analog of the ibuprofen route, plus Williamson O-methylation of 2-naphthol at the start. Asymmetric resolution to the (S)-enantiomer is a separate lesson.

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