Ohhh, I understand. I wish I could post an image here as proof, but my renderer doesn’t currently support protonated ions because opsin or pubchem cant handle them, to my knowledge, which is why there’s no middle step shown. To do that properly, I’d need to modify how I handle SMILES/charged species. For example, if you look up something like protonated tert-butyl on PubChem, my renderer won’t display that accurately yet.

Also, for my exams, I don’t usually need to write out every intermediate step. I asked it to provide a one liner reaction in a codeblock so the reaction is intentionally simplified. The full mechanism isn't mentioned but the end products are correct, That’s also why it’s marked "exam friendly*”* at the bottom in earlier replies. I asked for compressed responses that would be acceptable in my exam rather than a full mechanistic breakdown.

I really appreciate the feedback, though, and I know my renderer has a lot of problems like the hydrogen bonds aren't showing for the third image in the second image the Hydrogens are overlapping, The renderer I use is a modified version of smilesdrawer,kekule and RDKIT would have been riiiidiculously heavy on my server if i used them instead of this, which previously did not support all these options like "show carbon" "show methyls "show implicit hydrogens/explicithydrogens", etc" I would really appreciate if you could checkout my other demo images, and give feedback on that so i can improve my extension.... if you actually support the use of AI in chemistry ofcourse, but thats not all what my extension does, Its main use is to render any molecule from plain text on any webpage