I could find only this about potassium hydride :
http://www.organic-chemistry.org/abstracts/lit1/498.shtm
The major product P of the given reacn is :-
This is not my doubt
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Pritish Chakraborty
·2009-11-18 10:32:54
Pritish Chakraborty
·2009-11-18 10:44:01
Okay, KH is a very strong base, so it will abstract a proton. Acidity of alcohols is greater than alkenes, hence it will abstract a proton from -OH. Possibly an internal cyclization after that?