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Butanone is formed when an alkyne is passed through a dil sol of H2SO4at 330K in presence of mercuric sulphate. Write the possible structure of the alkyne.

Organic Chemistry

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Chapter16: Chemistry Of Benzene: Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution

Section16.4: Substituent Effects In Electrophilic Substitutions

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Organomagnesium halides are Grignard reagents. Francois Auguste Victor Grignard, a French chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1912, created these highly useful reagents.

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Butanone is formed when an alkyne is passed through a dil sol of H₂SO₄
at 330K in presence of mercuric sulphate. Write the possible structure of the alkyne.

Definition Definition Organic compounds that contain at least one triple bond between carbon-carbon atoms. The general molecular formula for alkynes with one triple bond is C n H 2n-2 .

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