Which of the following conditions or reaction sequence will NOT give acetophenone as the major product?

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Ethyl benzoate on reaction with 2 moles of grignard reagent forms a tertiary alcohol.Hence acetophenone cannot be formed in this reaction as shown below.

$Ph - COO - C_{2} H_{5} + {CH}_{3} MgBr ⟶ {PhCOCH}_{3} \overset{{CH}_{3} MgBr}{⟶} PhC {({CH}_{3})}_{2} OH$

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