Use curved arrows to show the bonding changes that occur during the decarboxylation of each of the following and give the structure of the resulting enol and the ketone formed from the enol.
(a)
(b)
Sample Solution (a) By analogy to the thermal decarboxylation of malonic acid, we represent the corresponding reaction of benzoylacetic acid as:
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