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ChemistryNEET 2024Named reactions: aldol, Cannizzaro, Clemmensen, Wolff–Kishner

Aldehydes, Ketones and Carboxylic Acids

The major products A and B formed in the reaction sequence shown in the figure are:

Question 88 as printed in the NEET 2024 booklet

  1. A.Products (1)
  2. B.Products (2)
  3. C.Products (3)
  4. D.Products (4)✓

Solution

replaces –OH by –Br without rearrangement, giving 1-bromo-2-methylcyclohexane (A). Alcoholic KOH then eliminates HBr by the Saytzeff rule to the more substituted alkene, 1-methylcyclohexene (B) — option (4).

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