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JEE Main · Chemistry · Aldehydes, Ketones and Carboxylic Acids

Grignard Addition to Alpha,Beta-Unsaturated Carbonyls

JEE Main asked Grignard Addition to Alpha,Beta-Unsaturated Carbonyls 2 times in 2 of the 108 shifts Lumi analysed, in 2021 and 2023. It belongs to Nucleophilic Addition, in Aldehydes, Ketones and Carboxylic Acids (Chemistry). The longest wait between two years asking it was 2 years.

Updated 2026-10-24

Times asked
2
in 2 shifts
Years
2 of 8
First asked
2021
last in 2023
Pattern
Occasional
across the analysed shifts

Questions on this idea a shift, by year

2017–2026. Asked in 2021 and 2023. Years differ in how many shifts Lumi analysed, so each year is scaled to one shift of 25 Chemistry questions.

00.050.10’170’200.03’210’220.07’230’240’250’26

Raw count: 2017: 0 in 1 shift · 2020: 0 in 12 shifts · 2021: 1 in 24 shifts · 2022: 0 in 24 shifts · 2023: 1 in 12 shifts · 2024: 0 in 18 shifts · 2025: 0 in 8 shifts · 2026: 0 in 9 shifts.

Shift by shift

Each square is one analysed shift, in date order. Open a filled one for that paper.

  • 20260 of 9
  • 20250 of 8
  • 20240 of 18
  • 20231 of 12
  • 20220 of 24
  • 20211 of 24
  • 20200 of 12
  • 20170 of 1

Asked in that shift More than once Not asked

How JEE Main framed it

Diagram based is the usual form. Skill tested: multi-step.

  • Predict product of reaction
  • Predict product of reaction sequence

Difficulty

Easy 0Medium 0Hard 2

Every question was multiple choice.

Every question

All 2 questions

From the official JEE Main shift papers, newest first. Open one for the full question, the options and the official answer.

  1. 6 Apr 2023, Shift 2 · Q77Find out the major product from the following reaction.HardDiagram basedHas a figure
  2. 25 Jul 2021, Shift 1 · Q43[figure: but-3-en-2-one, CH2=CH-C(=O)-CH3, treated with (i) C2H5MgBr\mathrm{C_2H_5MgBr}, dry ether (ii) H2O\mathrm{H_2O}, HCl giving P (Major…HardSingle correctHas a figure

Shifts: 25 Jul 2021, Shift 1, 6 Apr 2023, Shift 2.

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