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Acidity of Carboxylic Acids

Acetyl chlori...

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Acetyl chloride reacts with a Grignard reagent to form:

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an aldehyde

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a ketone

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an alkanol

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an ester

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Solution

The correct option is A a ketone
Acetyl chloride reacts with a Grignard reagent to form a ketone.
For example, acetyl chloride reacts with methyl magnesium bromide to form acetone.
$C H_{3} C O C l + C H_{3} M g B r \to C H_{3} C O C H_{3} + M g (C l) B r$

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