HELP !!! PRODUCT & MECHANISM

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Athenes Analyst ·

Pinacole Pinacolone rearrangement is whats comin into my mind!

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Vivek @ Born this Way ·

Yes!, It's that only.

Protonate the right -OH group and let it depart in form of H3O+. Now to stabilize the carbocation generated the lower left Phenyl group (Unsubstituted) will migrate to that (Why?) and generate a positive charge at carbon. This will now be satisfied by the lone pair from oxygen generating a Ketone group.

It should look like :

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arahan ·

THANKS VIVEK n MYVIC3 .

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