JEE Main Chemistry question

Which compound, on reductive ozonolysis, gives **only** glyoxal, OHC–CHO, as its product?

Answer: (A)

Solution

Cleaving acetylene's single, symmetric triple bond gives directly and exclusively the two-carbon dialdehyde glyoxal; ethene instead gives two

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