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How will you bring about the following conversion ?
'Ethanoic acid to a mixture of methanoic acid and dephenyl ketone'.

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Two phenyl groups can be introduced into an ester by reaching with Grignard reagent `(PhMgBr)`.
First, convert ethanoic acid to ester, followed by `G.R`. Reaction.
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