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Anjali is teaching Ashley about aromaticity, anti-aromaticity, and non-aromaticity in cyclic compounds. They cover Hückel's rule (4n+2), planarity, conjugation, exceptions like cyclooctatetraene, and aromaticity in heterocycles, including the role of lone pairs. Anjali also introduces Frost circles for visualizing aromaticity and explains Birch reduction, focusing on how substituents (electron-donating/withdrawing) influence the position of remaining double bonds. They briefly touch on NBS bromination and postpone aromatic substitution discussion.

Manisha tutored Amy on balancing chemical equations, nomenclature, and related concepts like atomic number, mass number, and valency. Amy practiced balancing equations and naming compounds. They agreed to focus on mole conversions, molarity, normality, and molality in the next session, potentially including titration formulas.

Erone is tutoring Hannah in chemistry, helping her prepare for an upcoming exam. They review quizzes and practice tests, covering topics like electrolytes, functional groups, stoichiometry, thermodynamics, and isotopes. Hannah struggles with multi-step problems, test anxiety, and connecting concepts, but benefits from Erone's step-by-step explanations. They schedule a tutoring session to review a particularly challenging practice test.

Aastha tutored Kayc on organic chemistry reactions, including alkyne reactions, hydroboration-oxidation, ether reactions with HBr, Lindlar's catalyst, alkyne oxidation, reduction, and reactions with NBS. They also covered E1 and E2 elimination mechanisms with examples. Aastha assigned practice problems and will continue the session tomorrow.

Nikita tutored Joshua on acid-base chemistry, covering Arrhenius, Bronsted-Lowry, and Lewis definitions, amphoteric species, and conjugate acid-base pairs. Joshua practiced pH calculations and was assigned homework covering conjugate acid-base pairs and pH/pOH concepts.

Simran tutored Leilani, reviewing organic chemistry concepts from past papers in preparation for an exam. They covered Fisher projections, reducing sugars, glycosidic linkages, reaction mechanisms (ester hydrolysis, SN1/SN2), and redox reactions. They also discussed the reactivity of aldehydes and ketones, and Lewis structures.