vikas askiitian expert
Last Activity: 13 Years ago
surely option 2 is correct ...
for this remove alfa hydrogens attached to C=0 group ...now more C=0 group will give more EWD effect &
thus stabilize carbanion ...
in 2nd case , alfa hydrogen on carbon bw two C=0 groups is highly acidic ...both groups are very close to carbon &
hence produce high inductive as well as high resonance effect thus stablize carbanion...