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Acidity of alpha-hydrogens
Concepts tested here
- Enolate formation
All Questions
2015 AIPMT-I 1 question
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Treatment of cyclopentanone
with methyl lithium gives which of the following species?$\overset{-}{C}H_3$ from $CH_3Li$ acts as a strong base and abstracts an $\alpha$-hydrogen of cyclopentanone.
So the cyclopentanonyl anion is formed.