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Interpretation:
Two sets of reagents that might be combined in a Wittig reaction to give 1-Phenyl-1,3-pentadiene has to be suggested.
Concept introduction:
The
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Compounds with two double bonds are known as dienes.
Wittig reaction is a reaction in which a nucleophilic elimination occurs after nucleophilic addition reaction. In this reaction an aldehyde or ketone reacts with a triphenyl phosphonium ylide (Wittig reagent) to give an alkene and triphenylphosphine oxide.
The reaction can be represented as shown below,
Mechanism:
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