DDT: spot the wrong reaction class

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One-step route to DDT from a chlorophenyl boronic acid and chloral with a Pd catalyst, drawn as a Suzuki coupling. The atoms balance and the product is right. Read the reaction class label carefully.

Suzuki coupling scope (aryl halide + aryl boronic acid)

Friedel-Crafts hydroxyalkylation in the classical DDT synthesis

When a Pd-coupling label cannot deliver the drawn bonds

Find the flaw

Click the step that contains the flaw, or pick “No flaw” if you think every step is correct.

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