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Alevel organic chem help

Help! I don’t know which atom gets both e-
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In organic mechanisms you can tell where electrons end up due to the arrows. The tail is where the electrons come from and the head is where they end up. So, in this case, you're correct they end up on the original oxygen that started off in the epoxide.
I'm not so sure if I understood your question correctly, so let me know if that makes sense?:smile:
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