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B is 2-Methylpropanoyl chloride, $(\mathrm{C}{\mathrm{H}}_3{)}_2\mathrm{CHC}(=\mathrm{O})\mathrm{Cl}$. The single index of index of hydrogen deficiency is supplied by the carbonyl. Its relatively high-frequency infrared spectroscopy band identifies an acyl chloride, while two equivalent methyl groups explain why four carbons produce only three carbon-13 NMR resonances.

Assign ${\delta }_C=178.1$ to the acyl chloride carbonyl, $46.3$ to the methine and $18.9$ ppm to both methyl groups. Their chemical equivalence in NMR follows from the symmetry of the isopropyl fragment in this achiral environment.

Use $a$ for the acetyl methyl, $b$ for the O-bound methylene group pair, $c$ for the internal vinyl proton, and $d,e$ for the terminal vinyl protons respectively trans and cis to $c$. The assignments areThe two terminal protons are diastereotopic: one is cis and the other trans to $c$, so they have different shifts and different vicinal couplings. Each terminal proton also couples through geminal coupling to the other and through long-range scalar coupling to the two $b$ protons. When those small couplings coincide, an underlying doublet of doublets of NMR triplets collapses to the observed NMR doublet of apparent NMR quartets. The O-bound protons are enantiotopic and have chemical equivalence in NMR in this achiral environment; they are split by $c$ and by the two terminal protons. The integrated terminal envelope contains two protons, not two equivalent protons at one shift.