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Date November 2020 Marks available [Maximum mark: 1] Reference code 20N.3.sl.TZ0.14b(i)
Level sl Paper 3 Time zone TZ0
Command term Annotate Question number b(i) Adapted from N/A
b(i).
[Maximum mark: 1]
20N.3.sl.TZ0.14b(i)

Consider the structures of medicinal molecules in section 37 of the data booklet.

(b(i))

Circle the side-chain in penicillin on the structure below.

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Markscheme

 ✔

Accept a circle that does not surround the amido group.

Do not accept a circle that only surrounds the phenol group.

Examiners report

Many students scored here but a relevant percentage didn't include the amide group. Quite a few students did not know where the side chain is and circled other parts of the molecule.