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Aldehydes Ketones and Carboxylic Acids question

2025 · 24 Jan · Shift 1 · Q17
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Aldehydes Ketones and Carboxylic Acids question

2025 · 24 Jan · Shift 1 · Q17

JEE MainChemistryAldehydes Ketones and Carboxylic AcidsMCQ+4 / −1
Aman has been asked to synthesise the molecule JEE Main 2025 (Online) 24th January Morning Shift Chemistry - Aldehydes, Ketones and Carboxylic Acids Question 17 English He thought of preparing the molecule using an aldol condensation reaction. He found a few cyclic alkenes in his laboratory. He thought of performing ozonolysis reaction on alkene to produce a dicarbonyl compound followed by aldol reaction to prepare " xxx". Predict the suitable alkene that can lead to the formation of "xxx ".
  1. A
    JEE Main 2025 (Online) 24th January Morning Shift Chemistry - Aldehydes, Ketones and Carboxylic Acids Question 17 English Option 1
  2. B
    JEE Main 2025 (Online) 24th January Morning Shift Chemistry - Aldehydes, Ketones and Carboxylic Acids Question 17 English Option 2
  3. C
    JEE Main 2025 (Online) 24th January Morning Shift Chemistry - Aldehydes, Ketones and Carboxylic Acids Question 17 English Option 3
  4. D
    JEE Main 2025 (Online) 24th January Morning Shift Chemistry - Aldehydes, Ketones and Carboxylic Acids Question 17 English Option 4
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Correct answer: D

The question image/text is incomplete: the target molecule xxx and the structures of options A, B, C, and D are not visible in the prompt you provided. Without those structures, it is not possible to rigorously derive which cyclic alkene on ozonolysis gives the required dicarbonyl compound, and then undergoes intramolecular/intermolecular aldol condensation to form xxx.

What would be the method if structures were visible?

  1. Identify the target enone/carbonyl compound xxx.
  2. Retrosynthetic aldol disconnection: break the β\betaβ-hydroxy/enone-forming bond to get the precursor dicarbonyl compound.
  3. Reverse ozonolysis logic: reconnect the two carbonyl carbons by a double bond to recover the cyclic alkene precursor.
  4. Match that alkene with the given options.

Key principle used

For a cyclic alkene, ozonolysis cleaves the C=CC=CC=C bond and converts the two alkene carbons into carbonyl carbons. Thus:

  • cycloalkene →\to→ open-chain or ring-opened dicarbonyl compound
  • that dicarbonyl compound may undergo intramolecular aldol condensation if the chain length is suitable, often giving a 5- or 6-membered ring product.

Limitation here

Since the actual structures are missing, I cannot independently verify whether option D is correct from first principles.

Given only the stored correct answer, I can only report agreement provisionally, but this is not a genuine derivation.

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