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Question
How will you prepare benzoic acid from toluene?
Solution
The reaction proceeds according to Popoff’s rule.
Popoff’s rule states that during the oxidation of an unsymmetrical ketone, the (C-CO) bonds cleaved in such a way that the ketone group stays with the smaller alkyl group.
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