Deuterium is the isotope of hydrogen of mass number 2, with a proton and a neutron in its nucleus. The chemistry of deuterium is nearly identical to the chemistry of hydrogen, except that C-D bond is slightly (5.0 "KJ" //"mole") stonger than the C-H bond. Reaction rates tend to be slower if a C-D bond as opposed to a C-H bond is broken in a rate limiting step. This effect on the rate is called a kinetic isotope effect. CH_(3)-overset(O) overset(||)(C)-CH_(3)overset(D_(2)O,D^(+))toX

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1.	Deuterium is the isotope of hydrogen of mass number 2, with a proton and a neutron in its nucleus. The chemistry of deuterium is nearly identical to the chemistry of hydrogen, except that C-D bond is slightly (5.0 "KJ" //"mole") stonger than the C-H bond. Reaction rates tend to be slower if a C-D bond as opposed to a C-H bond is broken in a rate limiting step. This effect on the rate is called a kinetic isotope effect. CH_(3)-overset(O) overset(\|\|)(C)-CH_(3)overset(D_(2)O,D^(+))toX
Answer» `CD_(3)-OVERSET(O) overset(\|\|)(C)-CD_(3)` `H_(2)C=overset(OD) overset(\|)(C)-CH_(3)` `H_(2)O=overset(OH)overset(\|)(C)-CH_(3)` `CH_(3)-overset(O)overset(\|\|)(C)-CD_(3)` Solution :