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Ethylene oxide is treated with in dry ether and the mixture is then worked up with dilute acid. The product is

  1. Aethanol
  2. Bpropan-2-ol
  3. Cpropan-1-ol
  4. Dbutan-1-ol

Answer: C

The Grignard reagent acts as a carbon nucleophile and opens the strained ring by SN2 attack at a ring carbon. This adds to and leaves an alkoxide on the other . Protonation gives , propan-1-ol.
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