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Ethylbenzene is treated with in sunlight (1 mol, monochlorination at the side chain, major product), then with alcoholic , and the resulting hydrocarbon is subjected to followed by / . The carbonyl products are

  1. Abenzaldehyde and methanal
  2. Bbenzoic acid and methanal
  3. Cbenzaldehyde and ethanal
  4. Dacetophenone and methanal

Answer: A

Radical chlorination occurs mainly at the benzylic secondary carbon: . Alcoholic KOH eliminates HCl to give styrene, . Reductive ozonolysis gives and .
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