organic chemistry - synthesis problem

How do you convert butanoic acid to 2-pentanone in less than 6 steps?

You may need to use a Grignard reagent. Grignard reagent has appeared in prelim papers before. Read about Grignard reagents on wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grignard_reaction

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