Treatment of an acid chloride (1) with a non-nucleophilic base furnishes the unusual species ketene (2), and not the expected enolate (3). This reaction proceeds by a mechanism that mostly resembles.
A
SN2 reaction
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B
E2 reaction
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C
nucleophilic acyl substitution
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D
enolate alkylation
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