Luminol Reactivity. Fill in the boxes with the correct structures using ChemBioDraw. A ChemDraw template of this document is available on Carmen. (12 points) NH$_2$ O Neutral Luminol O$_2$ NH NaOH NH (2 equiv.) [M] catalyst hv N$_2$
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