Chemistry, asked by gulabsa3642, 11 months ago

How will you prepare
1 - phenylethanol from acetaldehyde

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Answered by Alleei
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Answer : The complete reaction conversion is shown below.

Explanation :

The steps used for conversion of acetaldehyde to 1-phenylethanol are:

Step 1 : Reaction of acetaldehyde with Grignard reagent.

In Grignard reagent, the alkyl group behaves as a nucleophile and gets added to electrophilic carbon of aldehyde to give an addition product.

Step 2 : Hydrolysis of addition product.

The hydrolysis of this addition product results in the formation of alcohol.

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