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  4. Grignard reagents and organolithium compounds on addition to dry ice separately, followed by hydrolysis gives

Q. Grignard reagents and organolithium compounds on addition to dry ice separately, followed by hydrolysis gives

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Solution:

Lithium (EN ) is less electronegative than therefore, organolithium compounds are more nucleophilic than Grignard reagents. As a result, organolithium compounds add more reactive as well as less reactive resonance stabilised lithium salt of carboxylic acid thus formed to produce ketones.
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Grignard reagents on the other hand, being less nucleophilic add only to the more reactive .
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