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What Are the Two Starting Materials for a Robinson Annulation?

A Robinson annulation combines a carbon nucleophile derived from an enolizable carbonyl compound with an α,β-unsaturated ketone (an enone).

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What are the two starting materials for a Robinson annulation?

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This standalone concept question does not specify a target product. The answer describes the usual donor–enone pairing and gives an illustrative pair, not a unique retrosynthesis or a guarantee that every enolizable carbonyl/enone combination cyclizes.