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Qualification => Subject Doubts => GCE AS & A2 Level => Sciences => Topic started by: THEIGBOY on May 16, 2011, 06:31:39 am

Title: AS level paper 2
Post by: THEIGBOY on May 16, 2011, 06:31:39 am

can someone answer this --
when a halogenoalkane is reacted with NaOH , what products are formed, when it is pure (NaOH), alcoholic, and aqueous..

thank you

Title: Re: AS level paper 2
Post by: Arthur Bon Zavi on May 16, 2011, 07:36:30 am

Reaction of halo-alkanes with :

(i) concentrated alcoholic alkali under reflux condition gives alkenes.
(ii) dilute aqueous alkali gives alcohols.



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