NEET – 2021

When Grignard reagent reacts with ketone then tertiary alcohol is obtained as a product. Grignard reagent acts as a nucleophile and carbonyl carbon of ketone acts as an electrophile. The mechanism of the reaction is as follows:

The product contains four carbon atoms chain as a parent chain. The structure with numbering is as follows:

Hence the name of the compound is 2-Methylbutan-2-ol.