Question

Question: Devise a synthesis of the following compound from acetylene and organic compounds containing two carbons or fewer. You may use any other required reagents.

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Step-by-step solution

Retrosynthetic analysis

Retrosynthetic analysis is the process of the breakdown of a product in order to analyze the starting materials involved in a reaction and the pathway used.

The retrosynthetic breakdown of the product is shown below.

Retrosynthetic analysis

Synthetic pathway

From the retrosynthetic analysis, the synthetic pathway of the reaction can be derived, and it is shown below.

Synthetic pathway