[l_ame]

Hi guys, can someone please scrutinse my mechanism please? I'm not sure if its correct.



Thanks!! Any ammendments are welcome!

[movies]

The steps look okay to me.  I would, however, suggest that you add "+H⁺" over some of your equilibrium arrows when you have a protonation step (like your equilibrium between structures 5 and 6) and a "-H⁺" when you lose a proton (like structures 4 and 5).  I also like to put a "-H₂O" over the arrow whenever water is lost (like from structure 3 to 4).

Secondly, you have your second compound drawn in a funny way.  Is that a "+H₂" above that bond?  I have never seen anything drawn like that before.  I always show the hydrogens bonded to the actual atom that they are bonded to.

Finally, you need to lose a proton from your product to complete the reaction to product, or at the very least show some counterion.  The reaction should be catalytic in H⁺ so if you count up all your "+H⁺" and "-H⁺" steps they should all cancel out.