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Esters react with two moles of Grignard reagent to give the tert. alcohol. (It is very difficult to stop the reaction at the ketone intermediate).

Generic Organic reaction
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R3COH
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Interaction, Reaction, Process defined as:
Multistep: LA/B mechanism
Strategic Bond Formation
Substitution: Addition-followed-by Elimination
Substitution: Nucleophilic @ Acyl-Nfg

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