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Chapter 12: PROBLEM 12.31 (page 487)

Question: Devise a synthesis of the following compound from acetylene and organic compounds containing two carbons or fewer. You may use any other required reagents.

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Retrosynthetic analysis

Retrosynthetic analysis is the process of the breakdown of a product in order to analyze the starting materials involved in a reaction and the pathway used.

The retrosynthetic breakdown of the product is shown below.

Retrosynthetic analysis

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Synthetic pathway

From the retrosynthetic analysis, the synthetic pathway of the reaction can be derived, and it is shown below.

Synthetic pathway

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