QuestionCarbocations / hydride shift and Friedel–Crafts cyclisation
The reasonable carbocation intermediates which are likely to form in the reaction mechanism of the following transformation are

- (a) I, III and IV
- (b) III, IV and V
- (c) I, II and IV
- (d) II, III and V
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