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Suggest a suitable reagent to prepare secondary alcohol with identical group using Grignard reagent.

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Solution :Acetaldehyde reacts with GRIGNARD reagent to GIVE addition product, which on further undergoes ACID hydrolysis to yield secondary alcohol, that is isopropyl alcohol.
`underset("(Acetaldehyde)")(CH_(3)-overset(O)overset("||")C-H)+underset("(methyl magnesium bromide)")(CH_(3)-Mg-Br)rarrunderset(""CH_(3))underset("|")overset(""OMgBr)overset("|")(CH_(3)-C-H)overset (H^(+)//H_(2)O)rarrunderset("(isopropyl alcohol)")(underset(CH_(3)"")underset("| ")(CH_(3)-CH-OH)+MgBr(OH)`


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