An alkene on ozonolysis gives methanal as one of the product. Its structure is

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🧠 The Ozonolysis Scissors
Ozonolysis is like taking a pair of chemical scissors and cutting every double bond () in a molecule. Each cut end gets capped with an Oxygen atom to form a carbonyl ().

🗺️ Searching for Methanal
Methanal (or formaldehyde, ) comes from a cut that leaves a single carbon atom alone with two hydrogens. This only happens if the alkene has a terminal double bond ( group).

Looking at the options:
- (a) This is an internal double bond. Cutting it would give two aldehydes/k

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