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Q. An alkene on reductive ozonolysis gives two products A and B. When these products are treated with conc. KOH one of these products gives an alcohol and an acid salt. Here the alkene can be

NTA AbhyasNTA Abhyas 2020Aldehydes Ketones and Carboxylic Acids

Solution:

Here alkene is isobutene and the reactions are as follows

Solution

As formaldehyde on heating with conc. KOH gives $CH_{3}OH$ and HCOOK.

$HCHO\overset{\overset{-}{O} H}{ \rightarrow }CH_{3}OH+HCOO^{-}$