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5. The following reaction between fluoroacetamide and thiol usually does not occur as an organic reaction. However, researchers have made it work when they incorporated fluoroacetamide into a protein as a side chain of an unnatural amino acid, which then reacted with a cysteine residue of another protein when these two proteins formed a complex. (a) Explain why the given organic reaction does not work. (b) Explain why fluoroacetamide reacts with cysteine in the protein complex. The direct participation of other amino acid residues in the reaction is negligible

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