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Ethanenitrile is treated with in dry ether and the product is hydrolysed with dilute acid. The final organic product is

  1. Apropan-2-ol
  2. Bpropanone
  3. Cethanamide
  4. Dpropanal

Answer: B

The Grignard reagent adds once to the bond to give an imine salt, which is hydrolysed to the ketone. Hence gives . The ketone is not further attacked because the imine salt is stable in the reaction mixture.
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