awesome !

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no enthusiasm to solve this one????

try converting the initial compound to cyclopropanone and then it is simple application of grignard !

this is not a benzene ring that only the side chain will get oxidise on application of KMnO₄ .....what is the guarantee that the middle ring will be unaffected and the other two will be dismantled ?

so how to proceed then??

How to proceed in this?

Try adding Ozone/Zn granules to it. I think the two side chains should get removed by that one.

step 1>reaction with water
step 2>reductive ozonolysys
step 3>reaction with ethyl magnesium halide followed by hydrolysis
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strange !!!! this is absurd !!! [2]