Explanation:
Contributing structures are the resonating structures which are formed due to the delocalization of electrons in a molecule.
The azide ion that is , is a symmetrical ion, all of whose contributing structures have formal charges.
Lone pair of central nitrogen atom in azide ion is in conjugation with the neighboring nitrogen atoms.
Contributing structures of azide ion are drawn in the image attached.
Solution :
"Aldol" stands for the abbreviation, aldehyde and alcohol. When a ketone or an aldehyde's enolate reacts with the carbonyl of a molecule at the alpha carbon, under the acidic or basic conditions so as to obtained the ketone or β-hydroxy aldehyde, is known as an aldol reaction.
For the conversion of the aldol addition product of a 3-hydroxy-3-(4-nitrophenyl)-1-(2-pyridyl)-1-propanone to an aldol condensation product of (E)-3-(4-nitrophenyl)-1-(2-pyridyl)-1-propenone, the mechanism is given in the diagram a below :
