Which mechanism will this reaction follow? [closed]








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![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Al00t.jpg) What could be a possible mechanism? Please explain.




I think in the first step, all the ethers are hydrolysed because they are easily cleaved in acidic medium which is provided here by $\ce{H\_3O^+}$ and after hydrolysis, the gem-diols will be formed which will be immediately converted into ketone by loss of $\ce{H\_2O}$ molecules . Then, the rearrangement will be a **keto-enol tautomerism** which will yield ***Resorcinol***. After that aqueous bromine solution will exhibit activated electrophilic aromatic substitution to yield **C)**. The mechanism is as follows,[![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/gBS0P.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/gBS0P.jpg)


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