Textbook Fraud Occurs Under Which of These Circumstances

question 27

Multiple Choice

Textbook fraud occurs under which of these circumstances?

• A) faculty sell complimentary textbooks that they received from publishers to book dealers who resell the books
• B) a person falsely and intentionally claims to that another publisher stole their work and put it in their own textbook
• C) a textbook is published with no credit given to the author of the book by the publisher
• D) faculty sell textbooks they have written with false data

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Definitions:

Dieckman Cyclization

A chemical reaction used to form a ring by connecting the ends of a dicarbonyl compound using a base.

Acetoacetic Ester Synthesis

Acetoacetic ester synthesis is a method for creating carbon-carbon bonds, enabling the synthesis of ketones from acetoacetic ester through alkylation followed by decarboxylation.

Malonic Ester Synthesis

A carbon-carbon bond-forming reaction that uses malonic esters to synthesize carboxylic acids with various substituents.

Dieckmann Cyclization

A chemical reaction where a diester reacts with itself in the presence of a strong base to form a β-keto ester, effectively forming a ring structure as part of the process.