JEE Main 2022 Chemistry question

Which of the following conditions or reaction sequence will NOT give acetophenone as the major product ?

Answer: (3)

Solution

An ester with two equivalents of a Grignard reagent gives a tertiary alcohol (here 2-phenylpropan-2-ol), not a ketone. In (A) and (B) the

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