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Walk the model: ibuprofen
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Step 1 of 5
Walk SynovAI's retrosynthesis of ibuprofen. The textbook ground truth here is the BHC three-step route (Pd-catalyzed carbonylation, ketone reduction, Friedel-Crafts acylation); the model may pick the older Boots route, which uses a Darzens chain extension. When you disagree with the model and match the textbook, 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.