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The major product formed in the following reaction is:

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  • Option 2)

  • Option 3)

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Chemical properties of aldehydes and ketones -

Undergo nucleophilic addition reactions at carbon-oxygen double bond, hybridization of carbon changes from sp2 to  sp3.  Aldehydes are more reactive than ketones due to steric hindrance and  +I effect of an alkyl group.

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Alcohol formation by reduction of Ketones -

Yields secondary alcohol

- wherein

RCOR^{'} \overset{NaBH_{4}}{\rightarrow} RCH(OH)R

It is cross Aldol condensation

 


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